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Beast, 2005, Installation: Wallpainting, CCTV system, Video delay buffer. MIT Bldg N51, 275 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139.

This installation consists of a video monitor playing footage from a US apache helicopter in iraq, a wallpainting and CCTV system that employs a video buffer. The viewer is under surveillance while watching the war footage. A CCTV monitor located in an adjacent hallway shows a delayed surveillance video of the viewer as they watched the war footage with the wallpainting of a large cartoon beast (behind the viewer).

(A) Viewer watches war footage while under surveillance. (B) CCTV Monitor located down hallway displays (delayed) footage of viewer in front of beast cartoon.