Animalia Chordata is an interactive video sculpture. Six video-projected people representing a range of typologies are “trapped” inside glass volumes of varying shapes (including a sinuous Cognac bottle and a chemistry beaker), much like insects are captured in jars. The video sculpture features projection through two panes of glass transforms the traditional two-dimensional video into three-dimensional holographic images. 

One projector concurrently plays six different videos, meticulously stitched together as a single composite video, on a ten-minute loop. In their natural state, the projected people stand, sit, waver and lean. But when they feel “threatened” by a viewer approaching the work, they react in a defensive manner.