Lundberg is a video artist and co-director of the Transmedia Lab at the Fine Arts Department at UT. Most of his video art installations play with the surfaces of projection, suggesting spaces that are close to the audience. In some of them, the point of view is such that it draws the audience into the piece. Obviously, both these points were crucial sources of inspiration for our project. In "Dinner" the surface of projection is an actual dinner table. The projection consists of the characteristic gesture involved in a dinner, through a framing of projection which is cut off at the wrists level; there are four pairs of hands on the table.
In the "cocktail" piece, Bill filmed a cocktail party from a bird's eye point of view. The piece shows constellations of social interactions that occur dring this cocktail. Again, this piece was invaluable in our exploration of the camera angle as a powerful aesthetic strategy.
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