Scenes from 218 West 14th St. (2013)

Scenes From 218 W. 14th St. is a video projection controlled by an iPad application that displays thirty days of synchronized surveillance video. By pressing and scrubbing different buttons on the iPad interface the participant can carve and slice time, seeing hidden patterns in the everyday. The video is 10 hours long and takes a calendar form, the viewer can isolate different weeks, days of the week (all Thursdays for instance), scrub through time, go directly to the top of every hour or watch it in cluster view with random groups of days and times being selected. Scenes from 218 W. 14th St. enables the viewer to see subtle fluctuations of light and shadow and the randomness and ritual of daily urban life.