Now Streaming: Someone Else’s Life

Now Streaming: Someone Else’s Life

10-channel video installation; PVC, smartphones, tablets, cables
6’ x 4’ x 3’
2025

Now Streaming: Someone Else’s Life invites viewers into a quiet loop of observation. Constructed from black PVC pipe and outfitted with ten smartphones and tablets, the installation displays videos of people watching other people. As they recline in bed or sit cross-legged in a playroom, the subjects in each video hold their phone or tablet—absorbed, still, elsewhere. Each clip of gamer footage or a product unboxing casts someone else’s life into the observer’s intimate space. This arrangement creates a hall of mirrors: watchers watching watchers, attention absorbed and redirected until presence becomes diffuse. The installation lingers in that melancholy space between connection and detachment, where experience is no longer firsthand but filtered, flattened, and fed back. Layering digital and emotional distance, Now Streaming sketches a portrait of contemporary life where comfort and alienation quietly overlap. In a world wired for endless viewing, what happens to the self that is always watching but rarely participating?