Nativity

Nativity presents the prior technologies of home entertainment in a mystic and nostalgic configuration, where the technological structure and historical origin of the compact disc are framed within the biblical narrative. Arranged as in a traditional nativity setting, two modified DVD players stand like crowns or halos within an apparatus of projectors, lenses and glass. With the players and projectors enmeshed together - in light, sonically and electrically - the scene mutates. Governed by the mechanisms and imagery of circular and infinite motion; optical transfer; encryption; the internal language of the DVD player is directly translated into the harmonic music that accompanies the installation, which speaks in tandem with the light of the H.264 video compression standard.