The McCoy's at Postmasters

Postmasters continually shows interesting work - not always or even often appealing but very interesting media art. Jennifer and Kevin McCoy's Directed Dreaming series touched on the boundaries of conceptually appealing and technically interesting.

The pieces move though mechanical rotation of scenes and backgrounds, observed by arching camera eyes and lit by blaring arched lights. The live video feeds are either projected on the wall or shown through small lcd screens.



The projections blur the line between live and recorded media. The feeds are live - but since they are tightly focused on the moving dioramas in front of them, they in fact play and endless loop of video.



The scenes observed by the camera reference 1950's idealism mixed with a surreal shifting of scale and blending of elements. The feeds in the largest piece are layered two sleeping occupants appear to dream the elements on the rotating disks before them. In the smaller projection piece the eight cameras switch between elements which seem tied into a single story occuring on the front and back of the installation.