Video – Procedural Filter
Unseen is a video installation that emulates real time censorship of violent information and victims of oppression, actively showing the viewers live manipulation of media coverage. This installation utilizes three devices: a camera that broadcasts footage, a computer that processes raw video data and finally multiple commercial televisions that displays the manipulated content.
The installation uses projected footage of political dissidents, and victims of police brutality. Their bodies becomes dehumanized and filtered into simple lines of text forming the original silhouettes of their bodies. The footage is replaced by multiple text-arrays of the word “SILENCE” emphasizing the erasure of their identities. this informs the viewers of how censorship can be used as a tool to subdue and undermine the lives of others.
Jose Macasinag 