2-channel video installation

04:49 min

November 2015

An unexpected visit is a comically melodramatic story about a chance encounter with a past lover. Told through two channels installed as a diptych (one showing the protagonist, and the other showing his point of view) the nameless protagonist wears a full-body, green-screen suit, the past lover is a haphazardly computer-generated avatar with no emotion, and the voice-over narration is a melancholic robot voice with a stiffness that satirizes the histrionic text. The visible chroma key character embodies the invisible, it is what is not supposed to be seen; but its emotional insight is universal. The contrast between the physical green screen character and the computer-generated being stresses the contrived nature of digital depictions and the odd ways in which computers allow us to manufacture a self outside of our physical being.