"Realistic Virtuality"
The piece, "Realistic Virtuality,
" is a series of video-installation works which offer, through
the medium of TV, poetic, visual commentary about our relationship
with contemporary society. In each work, a small, special-effects-like
miniature set -- such as a running car, airplane in a tailspin,
or Barbie dollhouse -- is exhibited through a live, magnified
image of it projected onto a wall; it is not another installation
of recorded and video-projected image as moving wallpaper ! The
image is shown by a video projector, or by a video monitor, depending
on the extent of the particular exhibition space. The audience
sees two side-by-side images: a real object and its life-size
image. The hope is that through this juxtaposition, audience
members will notice the fascinating gap between "reality
as is" and "reality simulated by a popular medium.",
especially raised by video's own significant characteristic,
loss of the sense of " a real scale".
