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Peter Campus (American, born 1937)
aen, 1977
aen is one of the last in a group of closed-circuit video installations Peter Campus made in the 1970s in which the viewer becomes the subject of the work. Campus uses reflection, shadow, mirroring, and projection to disorient the viewer. As one enters aen, the darkened room gradually reveals the viewer's head, captured by a video camera, projected and inverted on the wall at an enormous scale. This inversion evokes not only the action of a camera obscura (or a concave mirror) but the structure of vision itself, in which the image appears inverted at the back of the eye and is corrected by the brain. Campus's shadowy projection operates as both a formal inquiry into space, surface, and scale and as a ghostly nocturnal reflection, which brings viewers into an existential encounter with their inner selves.
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About Peter Campus
Born 1937, New York, New York
Lives in East Patchogue, New York
Before he began work as an artist in 1968, Peter Campus studied psychology and cinema. He has since become a leading innovator, using video, closed-circuit installations and computer-based media in his art. Campus' work is unique both theoretically and formally. Of his works from the 1970s Campus said, they "were devoted to the dark side of the human psyche. It was stark, the content up front. I was using video, later photography to look inward."
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Paul Sharits (American, 1943-1999)
Shutter Interface, 1975
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