INTER-SPECT

Your photo is being taken. INTER-SPECT stages an encounter with a non-human intelligence — a creative voyeur that takes the audience as both its subject and its substance.   You and every other visitor are captured, examined, and catalogued into a continuously growing manuscript of faces. With each new visitor, a new face is laser etched over the faces that have come before.  Older captures fragment, blur, and bleed into one another, becoming the substrate for what follows. In a sense, the lasers act as both quill and eraser; what they inscribe in one moment they dissolve in the next.

INTER-SPECT’s AI voyeur carries out its work as a four-phase rite — waking, etching, distilling, unraveling — that cycles with each new visitor. The installation is assembling an interiority, a world, a society of its own, made entirely of the visitors it has taken in. Over time, it becomes a digital palimpsest, a layered record that collapses the distance between voyeur and subject. INTER-SPECT thus echoes the passing of generations and renders visible the making and unmaking of the historical archive.