Julia Scher

Julia Scher's work focuses on surveillance and the cyber-sphere. Scher reminds us that we are often unaware of the dangers constituted by the increasingly omnipresent surveillance systems, constantly monitoring us in the public space. Julia Scher's most recent installation piece, Predictive Engineering2, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, is based on a previous installation featured in the 1993 exhibition "Thresholds and Enclosures" presented in SFMOMA's former location. The installation recreates the ambiance of image, audio, and spoken word narrative of the original interactive surveillance piece, but advances the artwork using sophisticated computer-controlled retrieval devices and on-site cameras to emphasize and further articulate the Museum building observed as a real-time surveillance event.