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"points of presence" is a double channel video installation with a rotating screen projection, juxtaposing four urban environments.

“Points of Presence” shows public places tracing the opposing concepts of traditional and postmodernist urban design, featuring views of New York, Mexico City, Berlin and Shanghai. Yet culturally different, the cities posses neighborhoods with similar densities and usage of public space, as it appears in gaps , corridors and left-overs between privatized space.
The installation shows a constant interveaving of particular buildings and moving objects, that represent cultural identities of the individual place. Things are cut out ouf their environment “paisted” into the opposing image (appearing on other side of the screen), and vice versa. Typically these objects are neighborhood stores, trams, buses, kiosks, phone booths, benches and other idiosyncratic elements that create a new urban context when presented in the foreign city environment.
The intention is to visualize the phenomenon of a dual presence where memorized images are appearing ontop of the real percepted one, entering a dialogue of cultural difference and local prioities in urban planning. Each city paired with another of the four, making up six possible combinations.

Two video projectors are suspended from an aluminum construction orbiting in 12 foot distance around a 9 foot wide double-sided projection screen with 1 rpm.

Sounds of the interweawoven environemnts are panning across the room following the location of the rotating image.of one location until the second location is revealee