Summer Splash 2

18. Juni bis 27. Juli 2013 DAM Gallery in Berlin

Christa Sommerer u. Laurent Mignonneau, Leitungsteam von Interface Cutures zeigen ihre neue Arbeit "Excavate".

"Excavate" 2012
developed in 2012 for The View Contemporary Art Space Switzerland

EXCAVATE consists of a magic lantern from the 1940ies that we transformed into an interface through various sensor technologies, a computer program as well as a micro projector. Visitors to a dark space receive the EXCAVATE interface to explore the dark room. When shining light onto the walls, various dark particles appear, looking a bit like isopods. At one point these woodlice assemble and faint faces of
children develop. Each time the visitor moves the lamp these isopods disassemble, when focusing the lamp once more, a new child face appears.
Through the EXCAVATE magic lantern interface a large variety of children's faces can be explored, they stem from various antique photographs taken during the wartime. It is not clear why the children look so disturbed and scared.
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