Transparent Room by Michael Pinsky

Michael Pinsky takes the combined roles of urban planner, activist, researcher, resident and artist. Using the mediums of video, performance, mapping and programming, Pinsky responds site-specifically to physical and sociological space. Context is crucial, providing both the content and the platform for his work One of his recent projects is the Transparent Room, which toured the Leeds City Art Gallery.

Transparent Room suspends the viewer in a virtual space - here you see through the walls and the ceiling to the sky, hidden rooms, the street outside. The room that you enter no longer exists, its confining walls replaced by projections of the city, its time accelerated as clouds speed by, cars and people in the street outside racing through their lives. As the time passes, the views become details, then textures and finally just single colours of the objects when seen from this detailed perspective. The images abstract as they are magnified. You may start by seeing just moving colours or you may observe your own city. Information will break down or assemble all around you.