eyes of laura

Thanks to Robin, of the exceptionally well-designed and creativity-sparking blog Big Window, for pointing out the Eyes of Laura, an interactive web installation in which you control an art museum's security camera. It seems to be for real - the camera moves wherever you tell it to go, and the level of detail on the zoom-ins is extremely clear. I watched a thirtyish guy with red hair and a goatee eat his lunch while reading a newspaper until the experience started to feel a little too voyeuristic to be comfortable.

Navigate back through the days and you'll see references to some recurring characters, namely the Inspector, a creepy undercover detective-like guy, and Rabbit, a klepto kid who may or may not have connections to the Inspector. It's easy to imagine that these tidbits are real - but it's also just as easy to imagine that they've been staged, either by the artist herself or by someone aware of the project. Indeed, perhaps Laura herself isn't even real. This project brilliantly demonstrates -- intentionally or unintentionally -- the piecing-together of both narrative and identity from what Kant might call a "manifold of presentations".