das Shining

on Februar 1, 2023

Clonedoor/Slitscan

Here, the present and the past collide to create a distorted snapshot of the „now“ for a limited period of time. All visitors are invited to step through a portal of the present that scans them piece by piece and pulls them into the horizontal.

Thanks to a special high-speed camera, a single image series is captured every 4 milliseconds and shifted by exactly one pixel. This happens 250 times a second, resulting in a temporally high-resolution compilation of individual, short snapshots stitched together.

Clonedoor doesn’t demand attention loudly – it captures it by reflecting it.
The moment visitors recognize themselves being rendered in real time, attention flips inward. Watching oneself become an image produces a feedback loop:
look → appear → keep looking.
This turns attention into an active process, not passive consumption. The work exploits a basic cognitive hook: self-perception is one of the strongest attention triggers we have.