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Friday, December 29, 2006

PARANOIA in the real world: The "I" of TX 

New Year's Eve in my home town of Austin, Texas is "First Night," a day-long party across all of downtown. This year, performance artist Luke Savisky -- who likes to project large images using his collection of exotic film and video projectors -- offers an exhibition he calls "The 'I' of TX." (For readers outside North America: "TX" is the postal code for Texas, and so the name puns on the title of the state song, "The Eyes of Texas are Upon You.")

In a video kiosk at one First Night site, Savisky plans to shoot extreme video close-ups of the eyeballs of First Night partygoers, then project the images at enormous magnification on the spherical water tower on Second Street. Here's an "'I' of TX" photo taken during a dry run earlier this month. The cover of this week's Austin Chronicle, the local culture-arts weekly, shows (what I believe is) a mock-up of the likely experience. Brrrr.
Posted by: Allen Varney / 1:32 AM

Comments:
Hi. The Chronicle image IS an actual photograph of the projection of a version of the piece arranged specifically for the cover shot (at great expense). Its a bit degraded due to cropping from the larger file that is used inside illustrating the First Night article. Still image can't do justice to the really, really strange experience of the live event, though. There will be some quicktime files eventually posted on my website (under construction) at lukesavisky.com (maybe in a couple of months). If anyone has video or photos, please send them or contact me. The more the merrier. Thanks, Luke
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : January 01, 2007 4:12 PM
 
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