This kaleidoscope app was shown at vertexList and CANADA.


A digitally projected Kaleidoscope spins and folds images back onto themselves. The images have an odd familiarity; they are all randomly sampled from various internet sites across the vast expanse of the world wide web. Pornographic content, advertisements, photographs, and keyword text are all fed into the kaleidoscope and manipulated together. The effect is remarkably sedating. Though the spectator is inundated with visual information, they are unable to process the original contextual significance of any individual image. The images and text lose all semantic meaning, rendering them as purely decorative. All forms fuse into one beautiful, ever-changing ornamentation. As the kaleidoscope shifts and turns, the result is both pacifying and mildly hypnotic. This digital Kaleidoscope mirrors the daily visual experience of the contemporary American consumer. Constantly oversaturated by a profusion of digital stimuli, we become increasingly anesthetized to meaning-content. Accordingly, the overwhelming amount of information presented to the viewer through the kaleidoscope cannot be processed all at once; it blends together into one composite.