Jacob Stephens Swimming in Stereo

Jacob Stephens The Dollhouse

Laura Keller Transmit

Laura Keller Reel

Encounter, Amends
In two dimly lit cells directly across from each other, a luminous projection of a life-sized figure is combined with spoken words to create a dialog between an offender and a victim in an attempt to heal the wounds caused by crime.
We intend to create a dialog between an offender and a victim touching on the stages of restorative justice, the first two of which are Encounter and Ammends. Encounter creates opportunities for the victim, the offender, and community members, to meet to discuss the crime and its aftermath. Ammends involves the expectation of offenders to take steps to repair the harm they have caused.

This project consists of an audio-visual installation utilizing two Plexiglas curved screens, each approximately three feet across, two video projectors and two DVDs. “Talking head” silhouettes of an offender and a crime victims will appear to float in the air, each inside of a cell. The figure will be rear-projected onto the screen which has small speakers at ear-height on either side of the screen.

Video with surround sound
11 minutes, 11 seconds.

Quiet green turns to loud darkness in this short piece documenting an oncoming thunderstorm. FairHaven explores the changes in both the real and imagined lansdscapes through the compression and expansion of time. The duration of this piece is 11 minutes and 11 seconds, the same as the duration of the actual storm. But during this time, parts of the landscape appear and disappear in both subtle and dramatic ways- some naturally and some through the use of special effects.

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•Rage Against the Machine, Spire Studios, Beacon, NY, March and April 2006,
•See Saw, Mushroom Arts, New York, NY, December 2005,
•New Jersey Film Festival, Cape May, NJ, 2005

Designed by Anibal Pella-Woo and Ann LePore, this collaborative project is an audio-visual installation for the Weehawken Water Tower. The Weehawken Water Tower stands to become one of the identifying visual landmarks of this diverse, dynamic and rapidly changing region. Utilizing a number of video projectors, images of slowly rising and falling water will be rear projected from the inside of the building on to a number of its windows on all four sides of the building. We feel it is conceptually important to create this effect mechanically in order to further reflect on the history of the building and the mechanical pumps originally used within it.

We have created a self- contained “Water projection system” which consists of optical elements and a water tank that automatically fills and empties and acts as a giant slide The image of the rising and falling water would then be transferred to video for digital processing and projection. The images themselves will be visible from outside of the building to passersby. In addition, the light from these projections will be visible from much further away. The choice of image is meant to reflect on the original function of the building, and thereby comment on its history in relation to its geographical location.