Casper McElwee

Casper McElwee

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Archaic Rooms 2016

3D Anaglyph Video. For this project, floor plans from the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur, ca. 2000 B.C.E, were extruded into an artificial 3D space. A virtual camera floats through this odd-angled honeycomb of halls, doors, and passageways, accompanied only by the sound of hands rubbing together. Archaic Rooms suggests a glimpse into an inaccessible level of the unconscious, one with no boundaries, no exterior, and no beginning or end. Dimensions variable.
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Y-Space 2010

A maze is created from only two clips, a left turn and a right turn through a Y-shaped passage covered in mirrors. Unlike an actual mirror maze, there is no reflection of the viewer. Instead, the path appears to fork through a vast crystalline room whose walls recede to infinity - an image of the probability space through which the camera wanders. As the random editing program chooses left or right turns, one can imagine the untaken paths as a virtual, fractal tree.
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Blue Snowballs 2010

A virtual camera coils through an endless chain of orange dodecahedra filled with music and pale blue snow. The camera floats from one facet to another, connecting eleven blizzard-filled volumes in unpredictable groupings. Unlike the cubes that make up PLEX, chains of dodecahedra do not form loops, so in BLUE SNOWBALLS, two or more spaces will never be superimposed.