Cameras obviously zoom in, crop, and frame, while bodies move and breathe, informed by circumstances that started before the camera was turned on, and will continue after it is turned off. Whether it is a sequence or still frame, these methods of capture, however useful we may find them, can never replicate the intuition of a person, who can receive more than just data.
As light from the projector beams onto us, and audio of screen recordings play, the viewer is left to confront the people in front of the light, their shadow, the images on the screen, and the projector light itself. Although it takes a new unfamiliar form, one where a dimension is lost, the digital self, like the shadow, is no less real than anything else. Beyond these false dualisms there is a light which brings all of these manifestations into being; the body, the shadow, the screen images. Maybe that’s where we are.
