»Laufende Projekte« 
Light Box
Light Box
© Arye Wachsmuth; Laufende Projekte, 1993
[ Ongoing projects, 1993 ]
Video installation
Two milk-glass spheres, two video projectors, two video players, two videotapes, sound
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Two milk-glass spheres, two video projectors, two video players, two videotapes, sound
Descriptions & Essays
Ruth Schnell 25-09-2021
Video installation
[English title, Ongoing Projects]
"The projection of a sequence of images onto a ball and, as a consequence, the wall behind it, results in the juxtaposition of two projection surfaces. Whereas the ball displays a focused but distorted image, the wall surface displays a fragmented, diffused one.
The first projection shows a camera shot of a woman's face watching something while sitting in a train; the second projection shows transitory urban landscapes. The parallel position of the two projections creates the script for the dramatic event between the observer and the observed.
As spatial video sculptures, Schnell's media installations are situated at the intersection between analogue and digital reality, and between objectivity and virtuality. The integrated everyday objects, which embody the artificial images, refer to the world of things, but at the same time are reinterpreted, in the sense of the mediation process between the different levels of perception and reality."
- Ruth Schnell, quoting Johanna Hofleitner
Ruth Schnell: Laufende Projekte, 25-09-2021, in: Archive of Digital Art Video installation
[English title, Ongoing Projects]
"The projection of a sequence of images onto a ball and, as a consequence, the wall behind it, results in the juxtaposition of two projection surfaces. Whereas the ball displays a focused but distorted image, the wall surface displays a fragmented, diffused one.
The first projection shows a camera shot of a woman's face watching something while sitting in a train; the second projection shows transitory urban landscapes. The parallel position of the two projections creates the script for the dramatic event between the observer and the observed.
As spatial video sculptures, Schnell's media installations are situated at the intersection between analogue and digital reality, and between objectivity and virtuality. The integrated everyday objects, which embody the artificial images, refer to the world of things, but at the same time are reinterpreted, in the sense of the mediation process between the different levels of perception and reality."
- Ruth Schnell, quoting Johanna Hofleitner
Literature
Hofleitner, Johanna. »Das Sehen re-konstruieren.« EIKON - Internationale Zeitschrift für Photographie & Medienkunst 24 (1998).
Schnell, Ruth. »On the occasion of La Biennale di Venezia 1995.« In On the occasion of La Biennale di Venezia 1995, edited by Ruth Schnell. Vienna: 1995.
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