The Scale is Everything

The Scale is Everything is an interactive installation that examines eating

disorders, dissatisfaction, perfection and anonymity in the internet

culture.

The Roofing video piece http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb3aoZv2Pmw

is made by collecting found text and serial numbers

(height and weight) related to the published history of eating

disorders. These statistics, and other private information, is made

public by individuals on web sites dedicated to pro-analoxia. These web

sites are designed to promote anorexia as a healthy lifestyle instead

of a destructive sickness. From the recovered information I make video

collages, using analog errors, artifacts and other “bugs” by either

corrupting digital code/data, or by physically manipulating electronic

devices.

For the project, I will make an interactive video installation with

bandages, and small video monitors, that expands from the selling to

the floor. The piece can be installed in any given corner of the

space.

The audience is an important component of the installation; they must

interact with the piece by connecting corners of selected bandages.

This will activate a group of sensors that will activate the video

monitors.