How God must feel: staring down at humanity through a small grainy video
ABOVE: Nobuhisa Ishizuka’s piece Heaven’s Eye (2004) allows the viewer to push the video screen around on the floor to feel like ’someone like god.’
Just a small post today, sorry. We don’t often single out individual artists or works here at ADD, but this little item popped up on the gadget-and-gobot blog Gizmodo yesterday and we couldn’t resist.
Nobuhisa Ishizuka’s Heaven’s Eye is a video monitor that sits in its gallery facing up, so that you stand and look down into it. It displays a recorded video of a streetscape shot from above, but if you move the monitor around the floor, the video moves with it, so that it seems like a little mobile porthole looking down into the imaginary streetscape below the floor. Ishizuka has also done a piece (delaydelay) that sort of simulates riding the Shinkansen bullet train with five screens. The elliptical, slightly off-kilter Japanese-to-English translation alone is worth a clickthrough.