Went down to RPI's iEAR to see Tiffany Holmes and her new project "Your Face Is Safe with Me". It's an animation generated in real time using live feed from a closed circuit television network (CCTV) located in the Arts Department of RPI's West Hall. The animation is a humorous yet critical commentary on the increasing number of surveillance cameras in urban & suburban spaces. The large projection portrays the computer playing simple videogames with itself for no purpose.

The games parodied refer to the proliferation of surveillance camera networks & their potential to be perceived as hostile intruders in community spaces, as envisioned in the updated Space Invaders game. In another videogame, Pacman chomps through a single CCTV screenshot to reveal several others, alluding to our culture's voracious appetite for covert imagery. And when Asteroids played, a tiny ship blasting surveillance camera images into ever smaller ones, convey the immense amount of banal imagery generated daily by CCTV networks.

After watching the exhibit for about 30 minutes, Ms. Holmes gave a discussion about the project, how it started along with spin off / side project Open Loop. Additionally, she talked about some of her previous works including Nosce Te Ipsum & Open Body.