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Shane Cooper

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Shane Cooper is an installation artist specializing in Internet and interactive art.

Shane Cooper’s “webcam”

He works in the special effects field, and has contributed work to such films as the Lord of the Rings trilogy. He has worked with musicians, such as Devo in Santa Monica in 1996 and Graham Nash in Los Angeles, California in 1995.

There are many common themes emphasized in Shane’s works. Most of them feature interactivity with the viewer and computer learning. In many of his works, the actions of the viewer are somehow recorded and later used in the art itself.

Contents

1 Installations

2 Internet art

3 Notable exhibitions

4 External links

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Installations

A man and his “Reflection”

In Shane’s art installation “Remote Control”, a television set displays an anchorman that looks and sounds real, yet is completely computer-generated. The newscast being shown is generated in real-time, using feeds from various Internet news sources. A remote control with two buttons, labeled “Truth 1” and “Truth 2”, allows the viewer to choose between two channels: one where the news being reported is true, and one where the facts have been reversed.

In “Reflection” (also known as “Parasight”), the viewer stands in front of a wall that has an image of another person, standing in a similar way as them, projected onto it. When the viewer moves in any way, the image projected on the screen changes to match the new way that the viewer is standing. The result is that the viewer sees their “reflection” on the screen, only their reflection is in fact the image of a previous visitor. In addition, every viewer is also filmed and added to the database of images that can be projected. In this way, every new viewer adds to the exhibit, and helps to create a more accurate reflection for the next viewer.

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Internet art

Shane has also created several Internet art works which appear at his personal website (http://shanecooper.com/).

“Live (http://shanecooper.com/live.cgi)” is a simulated chatroom, which is actually full of bots. The bots learn new conversations from the humans that come into the room (another example of the viewer leaving an impression on the artwork itself). It also features a “live webcam” that is actually a series of images that repeat over and over.

“Caption (http://shanecooper.com/caption2.cgi)” randomly matches an image with a string of text. The goal of the project is to show how the human mind will find a link between any two randomly matched items.

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Notable exhibitions

Various items at F.I.L.E. Electronic Language International Festival in São Paulo 1999;
Various items atVisionNetwork in Tokyo 1999;
Remote Control in Karlsruhe, Germany 1999-2001;
Remote Control in Berlin 2001;
Remote Control in Graz, Austria 2001;
Parasight (Reflection) at Intermedium2 in Karlsruhe, Germany 2002;
Parasight (Reflection) at Volkswagen AG in Berlin 2002;
Remote Control in Vectors: Digital Art in our Time New York 2003;
Remote Control in Experimenta's House of the Future Melbourne 2003;
Reflection in Ciber:Art Bilbao 2004 in Bilbao Spain;
Remote Control in Reality Show, Aarau, Switzerland, 2005;
Live in Radiodays, De Appel Center for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam 2005;