Shutterbug

Original Memo:

Use the Gallery Space as a Narrative Tool

Visitors are photographed at a regular interval. Once captured in an image, a visitor can see their own image in the context of those who occupied the same space in the last 24 hours, seeing themselves in a ghost presence of strangers.

Add a common object (chair etc)?

Time Travel

Furthermore, visitor can choose to go back further in and see their own self situated among strangers from even farther past.

Companion Website

Bonus point: Run a website that continuously updates with recently added photos.

WHY:

The older I get, the more do I perceive myself as a phenomenon that occupies a tiny portion of space and time. And sometimes I feel connected to my past and future self with specific spaces as a medium.

Having lived in multiple cities including Seoul, New York and San Francisco, I have formed a mental pattern of associating places with specific times in my life. As I visit more places, especially those where I lived before, I sometimes feel the sensation of seeing myself from the past or the future co-existing in the same place.

Based on this sensation, I wanted to show people and memories from various times pertaining to a same space, and designed an interactive space where one can mix and match memories from different time spans as well.

WHAT:

Visitors are invited to take one or more snapshots of themselves using a time-lapse shutter control. Their images are then overlapped over time, sometimes with the ghosts of strangers who co-occupied the same space in a different time.

Using a proximity sensor, visitors are then encouraged to rewind time and see themselves occupying the same space with the ghosts of the people who existed there days ago.

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