The See Through Wall is a portal between reality and fiction.   Real space is reconstructed by playing with the viewers' understanding of video and audio as representational methods.   In See Through Wall II, a video camera and microphone on one side of the wall send media to a flatscreen with speakers on the other side of the wall.   The flatscreen presents a proportionate virtual window into the space on the other side of the wall.   Since it is a digital window, a ruse, it is possible to manipulate what the audience sees through the wall.   In this case, the live feed is combined with pre-recorded scenes in the same location.   Real people are visible in the frame, but at the same time, fictional people walk amongst them.   See Through Wall II is a live, localized television performance system, where social actors and voyeuristic audiences operate in the same real space.   Much like other forms of media, however, the representation is constructed, narrativized, or even dishonest.   The manipulation makes the experience entertaining, yet it also raises many questions, in a hands-on way, about our contemporary sense of reality.

Gabriel Winer Bio

Gabriel Winer is a video artist and filmmaker living in New York City.   He is currently a Masters candidate at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.   His interactive video installations have been shown at the Chelsea Art Museum, at Yale University's Interfaced Culture Conference, and at NYU.   In addition to his installation work, Gabriel has produced and directed several features, short-features (Star, '04, and Castaway,'99) and short-format pieces (The Tide, '01, and Supermod, '04).   Outside of his art practice, Gabriel is also involved in commercial video production.   Recently, he directed a music video for the Haitian artist Emeline Michel and worked as Assistant Director on a series of commercials.   Gabriel is originally from the Washington, D.C. area, and received his B.A. in Anthropology from Yale University.