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Check out the winner of the 2010 Catlin Art Prize, which promotes emerging artists in the UK.

The judges felt the video/performance work, by 29-year-old Reynir Hutber, was "especially promising for its coherency and for placing the viewer within the piece itself."

Hutber's piece uses "looped video footage to make it appear that the viewer is within touching distance of the artist when in fact the installation space is empty. The impact of this strange encounter is a powerful one, and asks a loaded question for our televisual society: 'Are we responsible for what we watch?' "

The artist said his work was "broadly concerned with the devices through which social behaviour is coerced, monitored and evaluated. Rather than focus on the production of objects, I stage open-ended scenarios whose implications are ultimately determined by the audience’s response and interaction."

h/t The Independent