The Rear Window Curiosity Cabinet
Students were given a stock IKEA Akurum wall cabinet, with which we were asked to create an interactive experience to “interact” with one or more of the jurors. We were given a week to conceive of, design and produce the piece.
I built a diorama of three apartments Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window”. The audience member picked-up a video camera and peered into the rooms, doing so, triggered audio clips from the film’s samples of Jimmy Stewart’s character’s dialouge on the view into courtyard from his rear window. Output from the camera was displayed on a projection behind the cabinet…
