Lincoln Schatz

"Inside my home’s entrance hall is another piece of art, this one called Cluster by Chicago artist Lincoln Schatz. It’s comprised of four adjacent TV monitors with a webcam that starts recording whenever there’s motion in the frame. A hard drive holds 25 years of video that plays back on a monitor, superimposing four different feeds—two recent and two from the past. You can simultaneously see something from 25 seconds ago, 25 weeks ago, 25 months ago, and 25 years ago. The background of each video clip is the same, but the content is ever-changing, interweaving people with time, space, and memory in relation to each other. The overall effect is an elegant, timeless montage of family members, friends, and colleagues waving, smiling, and dancing."