In Romy Achituv’s generative new media installation Sediment an aerial
video of Jerusalem and its surroundings is digitally processed in real-time. The landscape is interspersed with an exceptional diversity of habitats: ancient and modern, privileged and impoverished, rural and urban, Arab and Jewish. Using the camera’s motion to reshape the landscape, the algorithmic manipulation deconstructs and morphs the captured view, symbolically reifying the subjective eye cast upon this turmoil-riddled land. The subjectively constructed, real-time landscape is created by and with motion, and can be modified continuously as the viewer desires. The morphed geography can be perceived as reflecting the oscillation of present-day Israeli topography between the urban and the rural—a landscape in which the characteristic structural distinctions between cities, suburbs, villages, and
nature often seem to dissolve. (Sediment is one in a series of works created with a digital slit-scan photographic technique called Pixel Present developed by Achituv in 1997-98.)
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