Plato´s cave: an image stream installation within an office setting

Many people work in windowless offices where they are deprived of the sight of their outside environment. With this in mind we created a piece where a view of the surrounding neighborhood is streamed from a camera, through a network, and projected as an ambient display on a blank wall in a hallway of the School of Computer Science and Information Systems (CSIS) at Pace University. We discuss the simile of Plato´s cave with relationship to our viewers, and comment on the artistic influences of Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro.