Me and My Ghost
Me and My Ghost — webcam self-portraits from 2001–2002: me at the computer, caught live through the realtime effects I was building in Max/MSP with nato.0+55 — custom, self-made generative software running on my own face. Every frame was saved the moment it happened and named for the second it was taken (ghost.2001.11.18.15.47.33); 755 of them survive in the archive. The camera as self-portrait tool and as surveillance device at once — an early precursor to the 3D self-scanning that underlies so much of my work now.
In 2022 the archive became a collection on objkt; in 2024 a set of the frames was upscaled, to take advantage of new glitches.
Exhibited in Old Master, Wouters Gallery, Brussels, 2026.
See also MedusasMirror, the webcam mirror whose first version was also built with nato, and NATO, a browser klone of the library itself.