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.