2024 | Interactive Installation
SLIT-SCAN-CAN-CAN is an interactive slit-scan projection that uses a webcam and live coding to continuously “scan” bodies in real time. As visitors move through the camera’s field of view, their gestures are stretched across the projection, creating time-based tableaus that unfold across the wall. The work explores the relationship between body and landscape, asking how something as intimate as human movement can generate vast, horizon-like terrains. Growing up in Minnesota, a famously flat state, I took the horizon for granted until I moved to Toronto, where buildings obscure the meeting of land and sky. The work is inspired in part by Laurence Ricou’s Vertical Man/Horizontal World (1973), which examines how Canadian prairie fiction reflects the tension between the vulnerable “vertical” human figure and the intimidating, seemingly endless “horizontal” landscape. Where does the body end and the landscape begin? And what emerges at the horizon where the two meet? And, how can we use slit-scanning and film to pick at some of these questions?
Exhibitions
2026 – Venus Festival – Toronto, Canada (upcoming)
2026 – Vector Festival – Toronto, Canada
2026 – Open HDMI – Toronto, Canada
2025 – Reel Asian Film Festival – Toronto, Canada
2024 – InterAccess Gallery – Toronto, Canada
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