I was talking with Colin Ives the other day, asking what exactly had convinced me to help one of his students, Kate Sessions, so much with a piece she was working on. (Honestly, I love helping other artists overcome technical bumps, but it was a point of conversation.)

He just looks at me and points out “you’re obsessed with light matrixes.”

And he’s right. Which is why when I saw this interactive piece by Gebhard Sengmüller, I almost peed a little.

“A Parallel Image” is an electronic camera obscura. This media-archaeological, interactive sculpture is based on the fictive assumption that the currently still valid principle of electronically transmitting moving images, namely by breaking them down into single images and image lines, was never discovered. The result is an apparatus that attempts a highly elaborate parallel transmission or every single pixel from sender to receiver. This is only possible by connecting camera and monitor using about 2,500 cables. Unlike conventional electronic image transmission procedures, “A Parallel Image” is technologically completely transparent, conveying to the viewer a correspondence between real world and transmission that can be sensually experienced.

[Via Make]