Argus

Year | 2025

Medium | Multi-Channel Video Installation (Polarizing Films, Used Monitors)

Size | Variable Dimensions

Additional Details | "Argus" began by accident: I peeled what I thought was a screen protector off a new monitor, and the image disappeared. It was the polarizing layer. When you hold the film back up, the picture returns. This mistake became "Argus", named from Argus Panoptes, the “all-seeing” giant from Greek mythology that the work contradicts. Viewers use a handheld filter to move through the screens, revealing overlapping LiDAR scans of city streets. Here, fragility is the subject. Sight is conditional and fragile: one-degree shift in filter angle or a brighter entry light destroys it. "Argus" argues that visibility is made, not given; to see at all, someone has to set the conditions.

(LiDAR Scans Clips Credit: Kudan Data courtesy of UCS, MIT @senseable_city_lab)