How ideologies and emotions interrelate is examined within the context of conflict, with an emphasis on how the ideologies of the few impact the many. The construct of conflict takes shape in the form of debate, between two citizen participants of opposing views. Utilizing a Jitter based software interface, biofeedback sensors create data based on their emotional fluctuations and translate that impact into real-time 3d video distortions. Presented on the 450’ LED media façade, the project provides a dynamic dialog between site, power structures and the examination of public debate to present new avenues of communicative structures.

Examining the complexities of contemporary cultural tensions the project identifies with recent literary dialogues framed by the editors of eFlux, Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle through the investigation of “two sides of a single, irreconcilable anxiety with regard to cultural tradition, the promises of modernism, and the shortcomings of both. From this singular vantage point, we can perhaps discern something like a primary limit—which can also be a raw material—guiding our very ability to produce, or even reflect, culture today.”