I have this mental snapshot when I think of Kristin Lucas' work of a woman
caught in a kinder, gentler Videodrome. Or maybe, a slow moving William
Gibson story where the character is frozen in a media saturated video (art)
space. She fights good and evil and sees her own identity mirrored in an
ever-changing language of techno-pop. Characters from video games challenge
her athletic super human skills and fade into a background of obsolete
technologies. With Involuntary Reception our hero is caught in a split-screen
format. The left and right sides show versions of the same face, the same
scenes, with minor differences. The two screens seem to present the potential
threat that they might close-in and obliterate its subject.
In the introduction to the online version of Involuntary Reception
(http://www.eai.org/involuntary/), Lucas explains, 'I have an enormous
electromagnetic field. I don't know when this happened, I guess I've always
been this way. When I was a child I used to touch things and they'd just fry.
It has its advantages and disadvantages. Needless to say I have a different
kind of lifestyle which for years has kept me out of a lot of social circles.
Still I have made some close friends over time and they have responded to my
situation by helping me put this site up. I can't use a video camera to record my image, but I am able to
self-broadcast via satellite. I intercept and override signals a lot. Maybe
you have noticed. Please check back on occasion for additional broadcasts,
transcripts from the broadcasts (in case you are like me and have difficulty
receiving video streams on computers), and personal interest stories.'
– Stephen Vitiello
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Digital editing assistants Amanda Ault, Paul Hill. Second camera Joe McKay. Production assistance Experimental Television Center
Kristin Lucas ° 1968 Davenport, Iowa
Lives and works in Brooklyn NY, USA
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