Superimposing two live images creates a 'third space' that belongs to neither source

A composition idea Jack draws from the 1977 Satellite Arts / Hole in Space projects: overlaying two live video streams from different places produces a shared ‘third space’ that is not either original location — the images stop being two feeds and read as one co-present scene. The interaction is emergent from the overlay itself; you need not add motion tracking or explicit mapping between the layers for the sense of a new place to appear. This reframes AV compositing as spatial authorship, not just layering, and motivates mixing remote or unrelated feeds (e.g. a Times Square livestream over an aquarium) to manufacture places that never existed.

Examples

Jack live-codes over a Times Square livestream blended with an aquarium livestream; the two ‘create some sort of interaction between these two places’ without any tracking. Historical root: Kit Galloway & Sherrie Rabinowitz’s Hole in Space linking NY and LA.

Assessment

Explain what is meant by a ‘third space’ when two live feeds are superimposed, and why it can emerge without motion tracking or explicit layer mapping.