LCD
3 x 3 Video wall, motor, crystal pendant, colour video camera, video scaling equipment
Ross Manning has produced numerous works that play on the authorship of technology—relying on simple feedback loops to create systems that elicit an artwork to generate its own live content. LCD (2013) employs a suspended medallion crystal, live camera feed, and a video wall. The suspended crystal sits in front of the camera lens—slowly oscillating, refracting light from the screen—creating a constant loop of content generation and refraction. This suspended medallion mimics the liquid crystal inside the television, which play a key role in interpreting data into visual display. This external replication of the Televisions internal process subverts its normal function. Imagery repeats, remixes, and overlays, and feeds back on itself. No two moments or installations of LCD are the same—each element and the sum of its parts are in a constant state of self authorship.