Evolving Audience remembers everyone it meets. You watch it, you change it. This is an interactive event tht turns you into the performance. Join this evolving dialogue that focuses on a new topic each day. Watch the responses of those who have come before you and add your own voice at the end.

reflexive videos are built by their audience.

1. The first viewer doesn't have much to see, only the question and then themselves as they respond.
2. The second viewer sees the response of the first viewer as well as their own.
3. The third person sees response one followed by response two before adding their own comment.
4. - Question - first - second - third - record fourth response -
5. etc. - the video grows longer with each viewer. Their response is informed by those who had come before.

In this way the view grows from a series of responses, each informed by the discussion which preceeded. The viewer is an active participant, the audience is evolving.

Evolving Audience is a reflexive interactive video installation which involves recording the viewer and playing back this recording along with previous viewer responses to the next person. Each response is contextualized and informed by those that preceded it - the result is a lively structural progression of different voices and opinions. During the Termite TV "living documentary" project, I set up these reflexive installations all across the United States, a street corner in Tucson, AZ, at a garden party in Madison, WI, a public library in Sitka, Alaska, a media art center in Buffalo, NY and an Art School in Knoxville, TN. The interaction has a Brechtian effect, the audience cannot sit back as voyeurs, they must participate. Each person who watches the video changes it.

• click "Return" to begin

• the previous viewer responses are played sequentially from the first up until the most recent

• inter title - "Now it is your turn. Click the mouse when you are finished"

• camera on top of monitor records the viewer until they click the mouse or they are cut off at 30 seconds

• program returns to the beginning

• a question is asked