User:Artyom kocharyan

9 videos playing simultaneously on the same screen. each video have the same size, they are arranged on 3 rows, each row has 3 videos. the videos are found on youtube. each video shows a young woman demonstrating her own version of eye make up called "smokey eyes". this amateur videos are known on youtube as make up tutorials. each video is edited in order to have the same length as the others. due to the edit the videos also have matching frames: movements that all the girls perform simultaneously. for example when they show to the webcam (to their viewers) the color palette that they are going to use for the next step.

"untitled"

A small, dark room was build next to a window at the Rietveld Academie in the way that the window became the forth wall of the room. The space is empty except from a pair of binoculars and a set of speakers. The binoculars are attached to a tripod and placed on a hight of an eye level. they are directed towards the window. the speakers are placed on the ground, in the corners, to not attract attention. they are playing soundtracks from 80's suspense films. the visitors are invited inside the space one by one, around the lunch time. looking thought the binoculars the viewer sees the playground of the neighboring elementary school, which normally is full of children playing on their lunch break. this view is accompanied with the music coming from the speakers.

"family pictures"

a small, square book containing my family photos. each picture appears twice, next to each other (on the left and right page). on the left side there is a picture in its original state (condition), on the right side the image is different: it's improved. for the most of the images the difference is almost unnoticeable (subtile). the viewer's gaze jumps from right to left in order to detect the difference. the difference is peculiar to each image. for example the original image is slightly crooked since the person who made the picture

(someone in my family) wasn't holding the camera straight. the picture on the right is corrected accordingly.