Sky Eye
Sky Eye, a large-scale outdoor video projection, cast its gaze from the University of Michigan Detroit Observatory, Ann Arbor, MI. Designed site-specifically for the observatory dome, the projection features the eyes of current University of Michigan female/femme astronomy and astrophysics students.
While researching historical documents on early-to-mid 20th c. U-M women astronomers for my HerView project, I was motivated to create a visual legacy between current scholars and their foremothers. The result is a subversion of the male gaze in the form of a huge disembodied moving eye.
Sky Eye was funded by the University of Michigan Arts Initiative, and was a featured work for the University of Michigan Museum of Art's Memory & Monuments Symposium, culminating my year-long U-M Public Art & Engagement Fellowship in partnership with Monument Lab.
The HerView: University of Michigan series now includes webXR (phone/tablet-accessible augmented reality) at three sites on the Ann Arbor campus, including the Detroit Observatory, with the latter AR experience presenting historical imagery of three Astronomy/Astrophysics faculty from the 1920s - 1980s.
Two other sites include the University of Michigan Law Library and the Michigan League. The image below is from a handout I created with QR code for the Memory & Monuments Symposium - participants were invited to join me on a walking tour of the webXR sites.
