Distributed Nuclear Family System (DNFS) is a real-time media montage of (3) live video feeds from wireless web cameras distributed around the museum. Cameras installed in galleries are positioned to transmit partial views of art works in the museum’s permanent collection that when brought together in one complete figure (head, mid section, legs) form a super-human, ephemeral body.
The figure, subject to changes in the gallery light, presence of visitors and time of day, is a study in phenomenal form and suggests a fragile, contingent relation of parts to the whole, subject to object.
Exhibitions: Faculty Exhibition, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 2011.
Materials: (3) distributed wireless web cameras, (1) LCD monitor