‘Fan girl’ is a new “multi-media” work on CD Rom from Dooley Le Cappellaine who has sent in a rather intriguing insight into the influence of the project. Enjoy ...

  ____________In January 1995 I began to take a photograph each day at a different time the progress of a building going up across the street. I was terested in the unpredictability of change not the documentary aspect. I felt that as body of work these photographs were of little interest conceptually or even visually…I was waiting for something to happen. Finally it did. The building was complete, destroying half my view of the New York skyline and I began to consider moving.I noticed that due to the remarkably shallow architectural plan of the apartments across the street , the occupants were almost on permanent public display.The building took on the fascinating aspect of an antfarm and I soon had names for my favorite characters. (I don’t watch TV). My favorite was the “fan girl”. I first noticed her on a bright early afternoon performing spectacular sex almost on the window ledge. This went on with amazing regularity always with a new partner. Her performances were so exhibitionist and astonishing I wondered if she had a voyeur client in my building. I developed a peculiar habit of glancing out the window and of course taking photographs.Sometimes getting up at 4am for a glass of water I would glance out and she would be there with a bright light on having 70’s style Penthouse sex. She was extremely slender and pretty I wondered if she was a call girl or a plastic surgery girl so “sexual fantasy” was her style.Eventually she found a boyfriend and gradually the performances tapered off; it must have just been a phase in her life, things change.One of the things I had been thinking of while working on some interactive projects was how passive and ingratiating most art for walls is and also how “interactivity” is generally just click/reward/click/reward. I began to study programming in Director earnestly  for a way to make the “fan girl” an artwork which would operate according it’s subject matter, voyeurism.

At specific  times (day/month) uncontrollable by the viewer the work will change over the period of one year to show a different episode in the life I observed for a time.

  ____________Now if that isn’t a good introduction to a web project ?