2011, 3:36:45, digital video with 4-part audio/visual performance
Voice actor: Li Wang
Still photography: Tyler Borenstein
Doppelgänger Effect is a series of bicycle rides that function to broadcast audio tracks over Manhattan's 1811 grid. The audio tracks are augmented to compensate for the perceived pitch fluctuation of sound when coming from a moving source (aka the Doppler effect). The tracks are comprised of excerpts from Jean Paul's novel, Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces or the Married Life, Death, and Wedding of the Advocate of the Poor, Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkäs, in which Jean Paul coined the term "doppelgänger." The reading is intermixed excerpts from Induction of an "Illusory Shadow Person," a report published in Nature that locates the sensation of a double within temporoparietal junction.
Vehicle for projecting/recording audio and video
The performance routes spanned from First Street to 155th Street and Avenue D to 12th Avenue, ranging from 30 to 75 minutes in duration.
The dates of the rides were
October 3, 2011 at 8:30 am commencing Avenue D at 9th Street
October 5, 2011 at 12 pm commencing 5th Avenue at 34th Street
October 7, 2011 at 5 pm commencing 7th Avenue at 42nd Street
October 9, at 11:30 pm commencing 9th Avenue at 57th Street
This performance/variable media work was made possible, in part, by the Franklin Furnace Fund supported by Jerome Foundation; the Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
The Doppelgänger Effect Map