Chapel Gallery home to new interactive video art exhibit
Step in to the vast space of the Chapel Gallery and you come face to face with a 10 foot screen of human emotion.
Designed by artists Yoko Takashima and Ruby Arnold, “Bridge Over Troubled Water” unites human feeling and digital technology to display the fragility of the human condition through video and digital media.
The solo piece is an interactive video featuring an overlapping of subjects –people ranging in age, gender and ethnicity. “It speaks to shared experience,” Arnold said. “There is something we all share, and the struggle is part of it.”
The project is the culmination of two year’s work. Takashima was inspired to film 37 volunteers singing Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water. The video subjects are positioned intimately close to the camera and are filmed singing their hearts out as their eyes peer deeply in to the viewer’s.