Williams College Museum of Art Presents
David Rokeby: Taken
March 12, 2005-June 12, 2005

Taken is a surveillance installation by the Canadian artist David Rokeby that tracks the movements of visitors within the gallery space and incorporates this information into its visual display, projections on the walls within the gallery. The gallery visitors’ movements are extracted from the gallery space, and their activity is looped back onto itself at 20 second intervals. The result is that every action within the space of the gallery occurs together on the screen, repeating every 20 seconds. History, however, is also critical to this work, as the activity accumulates over time. Thus, the result is a chaotic trace of history, a record of the gallery space as well as the movement of the viewer within that space.
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