stutter (2022)

"stutter," 2022found chair and found fabric mounted on motor, laptop, webcam, projector

"stutter" is built on the idea of temporal incongruity, material decay, and the disintegration of image quality through reflexive feedback as a means of digitally mediating a found object. It presents a weathered wooden chair and a found shirt ripped out of a dirt parking lot, draped off a chair leg. The chair is mounted on the shaft of a slow rotating motor, the fabric gently dragging around the floor. A webcam captures the scene, with the video manipulated through a freeze frame filter and livestreamed on Twitch. The repetitive “stutter” of the chair’s rotation in the image is projected onto the scene, creating a feedback loop that deteriorates image quality at every step. The cast shadow of the chair appears as a series of residual obfuscations in the projected image, out of sync with the movement of the actual shadow in the space.