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Watch Out for Invisible Ghosts

Kristin Lucas

1996 00:05:00 United StatesEnglishColorStereo4:3Video
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Description

This mock-virtual environment is a playground for the imagination. Equipped with helmet, goggles, and a basic understanding of early video game strategies, the artist morphs into an adventureland training camp where she meets with media icons on common ground. She fearlessly changes her intensity and velocity in unison with, and at times under the command of, rival action heroes and network sponsors. The title implies that there are bugs in the program, undetected viruses in the system. This video performance parallels the heightened sense of anxiety inherent in computer games, amplifying a "fear of contamination" to a level that borders on insanity.

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About Kristin Lucas

Kristin Lucas is one of the most exciting of a new generation of young artists working in video, installation, and performance. Lucas uses her camera as a diaristic device, into which she unloads her anecdotal, performative mini-dramas. Her work resonates with a sense of social isolation and alienation from the computer/television/electronic media that she posits as a surrogate for personal interaction. The backdrop to Lucas's work is the empty world of day-time television, cable shopping channels and shopping malls.