METRONOM

Ghostcoaster Reconstruction (2021) by Claire Hentschker is the third video intervention in the programming of Digital Deviations, third edition of DIGITAL VIDEO WALL, an annual project promoted by METRONOM, structured in thematic chapters, and aimed at promoting the dissemination and experimentation of digital art.

Ghostcoaster Reconstruction is a video work that uses found footage of the now destroyed Star Jet roller-coaster to digitally reconstruct an experience that is no longer available: Star Jet was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and thrown completely into the sea like all the surrounding built-up area. Star Jet was beloved by New Jersey citizens and many of them filmed themselves riding it and that archived it on YouTube prior to 2012.

This 360 ° navigation of a three-dimensional space is created by the artist Claire Hentschker using photogrammetry, a 3D modeling technique that uses images of real objects and spaces - in this case YouTube videos - to create dreamlike representations of reality: Hentschker's roller-coaster does not exist (or, better, doesn't exist anymore) but arises from the fragmented and distorted superimposition of pre-existing images. This shift form archive to re-writing is also made evident by the progressive loss of sharpness that underlines the beginning of the Reconstruction.

In Ghostcoaster Reconstruction, Hentschker questions the concepts of realism and objectivity in photography by presenting a complex and articulated structure of meticulously unraveled and recomposed data, in an assembly that is not only made up of images but also of experiences and experiences that belong to those places, and where human intervention is limited to the collection and manipulation of data.

©cover images: Claire Hentschker, Ghostcoaster Reconstruction, 2021, still

Claire Hentschker
Ghostcoaster Reconstruction
Digital Video Wall, Metronom, Via Carteria 10 / 41121 Modena
16 May - 22 June 2021
info@metronom.it / 059 239501 / www.metronom.it