autologousReflection

This computer generated animation uses the input of the computer's camera as an image source. The custom software program displayed on screen continually scans the camera input and mirrors it to create a bilaterally symmetrical abstraction. A circular inset functions as a bilaterally symmetrical "mirror" for the viewer. This inset is partially obscured by the reflection of an actual mirror placed in the view of the camera. The reflection displays the code that is generating the animation. The code console continually scrolls through an excerpt of Francis Galton's Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development (1883) in which he references his ideas of eugenics and coins the term for the first time. The project interrogates notions of examination, loops, recursion, symmetry, and cultural constructs of beauty.