Fan Girl

'Fan girl' is a new "multi-media" work on CD Rom from Dooley Le Cappellaine who has sent in a rather intriguing insight into the influence of the project. Enjoy ...

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In January 1995 I began to take a photograph each day at a different time the progress of a building going up across the street. I was interested in the unpredictability of change not the documentary aspect. I felt that as body of work these photographs were of little interest conceptually or even visually...

I was waiting for something to happen. Finally it did. The building was complete, destroying half my view of the New York skyline and I began to consider moving.

I noticed that due to the remarkably shallow architectural plan of the apartments across the street , the occupants were almost on permanent public display.

The building took on the fascinating aspect of an antfarm and I soon had names for my favorite characters. (I don't watch TV). My favorite was the "fan girl". I first noticed her on a bright early afternoon performing spectacular sex almost on the window ledge. This went on with amazing regularity always with a new partner. Her performances were so exhibitionist and astonishing I wondered if she had a voyeur client in my building. I developed a peculiar habit of glancing out the window and of course taking photographs.

Sometimes getting up at 4am for a glass of water I would glance out and she would be there with a bright light on having 70's style Penthouse sex. She was extremely slender and pretty I wondered if she was a call girl or a plastic surgery girl so "sexual fantasy" was her style.

Eventually she found a boyfriend and gradually the performances tapered off; it must have just been a phase in her life, things change.

One of the things I had been thinking of while working on some interactive projects was how passive and ingratiating most art for walls is and also how "interactivity" is generally just click/reward/click/reward. I began to study programming in Director earnestly for a way to make the "fan girl" an artwork which would operate according it's subject matter, voyeurism.

At specific times (day/month) uncontrollable by the viewer the work will change over the period of one year to show a different episode in the life I observed for a time. ____________

Now if that isn't a good introduction to a web project ...

http://www.thing.net/dooley/

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