A live online audiovisual performance, composed with 3 devices with photographic capability - laptop and its webcam, smart phone and its front-end camera, an external webcam attached to the laptop through a USB cable.
In a stable network environment, I used the Streamyard live-streaming platform to connect three devices. Each of the 3 photographic devices takes an individual account on Streamyard for separate video/audio inputs as the program is hosted live on Streamyard, the streaming platform. Images and sound are captured and processed for feedback loops with Max/Jitter.
They are three eyes, three windows, and also three sources of surveillance. I watch them, play with them, let them “observe” each other, responding and feeding back until they flicker, glow, make noise, and “collapse.”
It is beautiful light, like ripples of water, yet also dangerous flicker and discordant sound. The process of the performance explores our ways of connecting with the outside—entering, adapting, resisting—until finally choosing to abandon and leave such a viewing environment.
At the end of the performance, I turned off all the devices except one, and ran—out of the house, to the sea. I threw the cam into the water.