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disPlacement by Raphael Zollinger from rzoll on Vimeo.

disPLACEment. Max/MSP/Jitter custom algorithm, camera, projector, computer.

DisPLACEment is an interactive video installation that examines the hidden threads connecting our unconscious daily movements to events unfolding across the globe. The installation space remains entirely blank and silent until a viewer crosses into its field. Utilizing live camera tracking, the system captures the participant's silhouette, transforming their body into a dynamic window that reveals firsthand news footage from a marketplace in Iraq.
By positioning the viewer as the literal vehicle through which actions from afar are exposed, the work emphasizes bodily fragility while implicating the spectator as both a target and a lens. As participants move through the space, their physical shifting uncovers different fragments of the video—thereby completing the piece. disPLACEment ultimately forces a visceral confrontation with media consumption, leaving the audience to interrogate their complicity in the geopolitical narratives flashing across their screens.

Khaylithsha Boogie Woogie from rzoll on Vimeo.

Khaylithsha Boogie Woogie

Max/MSP/Jitter - live generative algorithm or looped 2.04min video file, 2011. The underlying video is taken from a protest against water restrictions in the township that is nestled on the southeastern periphery of Cape Town, South Africa. The glitch patterns over the video obscure the content as an analog to muddied news media broadcast from the region and thus the stifled voices of the people affected.