BosqueRreal: Screenings

Screenings temporarily key out BosqueReal's central spatial feature - the transparent vitrine window - through a thin layer of green color applied to the glass. 

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This 'green screen' serves for projections and creates an interface where reflections of the surroundings and electronic images collapse into each other. As anthropologist Shannon Mattern argues, chroma key - colored screens - can construct immersive, fantasy worlds, but these are then often "not of liberation, but of colonization, exoticization, and oppression."(1) 

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Screenings screens often intentionally unpictured productive forces bound up with the built environment: extractions of natural resources, employment of invisible labor, and use of digital techniques. 

 

(1) Shannon Mattern, "Green Screen in Eight Channels", LA+ (University of Pennsylvania, Spring 2022): 10-19

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