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  • Metalogue -
    ... why do things get in a muddle?". The notion of the metalogue is that the structure of a dialogue, can in fact progressively mirror its own content - thus the two way conversation can also be apprehended as a metalogue. Looking at the picture: the 'muddle'...
  • ... first explored in Televirtual Chit Chat (1993) and Anamorphoses of Memory (1986). At the centre of a room there is a large mirror-surfaced cylinder. A circular white surface on the floor, onto which images are projected from above, surrounds the cylinder....
  • ... completely dark room. The video image is projected over the whole ceiling, and the floor is entirely covered by a mirror on which the visitors stand and see both their own reflection and the reflection of the projected image on the ceiling. The...
  • ... particular attention to compose a melody. Spectators are sitting around a hearth which is materialized by a hemispherical mirror. They can manipulate sensitive device in order to create visual and sonorous symphonies. By manipulating the sensors, the...
  • Residues - video
    ... grave, is the plan where the body is in a horizontal/vertical tension. The electronic screens are reflected on the oil as a mirror that gives the images another virtual life. The material in natura: oil, water and residues can offer dialogues between the...
  • wi-fi sm -
    ... escape here, no space of freedom, no open source of life. Mankind has become your closest neighbour and the Web is your ultimate mirror, the global accounting of your being. You have reached the “age of access”, the ultimate stage of surplus value: Generalized...
  • Lorna - video
    ... Notes, 1981 While video was like a reflection that did not talk back, interactive works were like a trick, two way mirror that required dialogues. I found this possibility deeply subversive! Unlike ROBERTA, who existed in the world, LORNA the...
  • ...Imagine a 3 x 3 x 3 mirrored cube suspended 25 centimeters from the floor supported on a crosspiece in the center of a base having four springs, one on each corner. Two of its facets rotate on its central axle. One facet pivots and the other facet balances. This...
  • Seeing Double -
    ... the work with a stereoscopic device; as well as anamorphic drawings-- images which appear distorted, but are corrected in mirrored in cylinders. Reference to optics have been an ongoing concern in Kentridge's work since, for example, the film Stereoscope...
  • ... the real space digitally over a screen (Banz & Bowinkel, Fiona Valentine Thomann). The exploration of virtual spaces in the mirror of the digital also takes place in all other contemporary media, e.g. sculpture (Claudia Larcher), mixed-media wall...