Sarah Oppenheimer views the newspaper as a nomadic private space utilized within a public arena. Her project presented at Momenta, Field Study/Control, is an empirical investigation into the newspaper as both reading material and architectural screen. The first part of the project involved affixing a video camera to the ceiling of commuter trains in Japan, recording data regarding passengers reading newspapers. For the second part of the project, the artist rented a small office space in downtown Tokyo for two days, where the activity of anonymous test subjects was recorded. The results of Field Study/Control are presented on a pole-mounted video screen

with an accompanying diagrammatic poster. The work, including a formal and hypnotic assay of newspapers being folded, investigates how the built environment impacts human movement.

Sarah Oppenheimer received a BA from Brown University in semiotics and a Masters of Fine Art from Yale University in 1999. She received a Yaddo residency and was a studio recipient of the Marie Walsh Sharp Foundation in 2001. Her work has been exhibited at the Drawing Center, the Bronx Museum, and the Sculpture Center in New York.