JIM CAMPBELL
From the Color Works series
Color By Number, 1999
Two video projectors, LCD screens, custom electronics, dimensions variable
Color by Number involves creating an environment in which a sequence of colors is connected to an image by relying on the viewer's memory and associations. This version consists of 2 large video screens set into the walls of a hallway. Seen on these two screens are slowly changing colored light fields. Next to these dynamic color field squares is an open doorway which allows the viewer to go behind the wall to find the source of the colored light. When the viewers goes behind the wall containing the color fields they see two large beams of colored light, one for each of the squares on the wall. The changing light is created by ceiling mounted video projectors throwing light onto rear projection screens. Behind each color field and below the projector is a video screen mounted on the wall revealing a single video image. When the viewers look closely at one of these video stills they see a single white pixel slowly moving from the left to the right and then down one line, slowly scanning the image. It soon becomes clear that the moving white pixel represents the location of the color that is currently being displayed on the large square rear projection screen. The missing pixel is magnified to the three feet by three feet square of light. The first still image is of a lotus flower and the second image is of one of the Vietnamese monks who set himself on fire during the Vietnam War.
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