Katherine Isbister, Rainey Straus

SimVeillance: San Jose re-presents urban passersby within a game environment that mirrors a ‘real-world’ public space.

The artists will recreate the Cesar Chavez plaza in downtown San Jose using the Sims 2, and will work from images captured by surveillance cameras trained on the square, to populate the simulated square with replicas of ‘real’ transients.

The final installation will have two displays. On one, the game running, populated with the borrowed transients. On the other, a slide show with paired images: surveillance photo and digital snapshot of the ‘Sim’ that was created in the likeness of the real person.

URLs:
The Sim Gallery Project
http://www.simgallery.net/

Rainey Straus
http://www.raineystraus.com/

Katherine Isbister
http://www.friendlymedia.org