11 Hours a Day

Grand Prize, The Rumsey Art Competition and Grant

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​Viewers were given anaglyphic 3D glasses and asked to meditate in the exhibit space. Lining the walls were a couple hundred photos - scaled and displayed as if from an Instagram page - compatible with the glasses. Some photos were lit with red and blue gels split-lighting the subjects' faces, while others were shot with a "regular" lighting scheme and white balance, then given an anaglyphic 3D effect in post; the two types of photos were inverses of the 3D effects, the ones created with editing in post would come at you like a normal 3D movie/photograph, while the diegetically split-lit photos would move backwards in space.

 

Along the side walls were screens with the moving-image version of the same portraiture, baked into strobing light effects, with parallel droning audio with tonal shifts based on your location in the room. The center wall exhibited a screening of the accompanying short documentary, 11 Hours a Day, depicting the millennial struggle to free our minds of the social media strangelhold when it gets in the way of healing.