Shift, 2006
Shift an interactive generative video work by Lincoln Schatz, is a commission for a private collection in Los Angeles, California.

Installed on an aluminum frame, Shift an interactive generative video work, is comprised of a television monitor, a camera and a computer. The monitor displays the interactive artwork by Schatz.
To begin, a camera records the space the artwork is in. This signal passes to a computer which process both live and historical video files simultaneously. Creating a world of layered videos that challenge our understanding of time and memory. Generating relationships between different periods in time through the manipulation of these video files. Because of this, these works by Schatz, by compressing time, bring the immediate and the past together. The artwork challenges us to reconsider how our memory works. As a result, these generative video artworks complicate what we think we remember. Asking us to reconsider how we might live in and understand a given space and period of time. View other generative video artworks, like Cluster, on Lincoln Schatz’s Vimeo page.