Revolution

Jeffrey Shaw, Kennis voor collecties
Source: Jeffrey Shaw, Kennis voor collecties

Jeffrey Shaw

Revolution , ongoing
Co-workers & Funding
with Tjebbe van Tijen
Software: Gideon May
Hardware: Bas Bossinade, Charly Jungbauer, Huib Nelissen
Documents
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Description
In this interactive laser-disc-based work the viewer has to push a protruding steel bar to rotate a column-mounted monitor which in turn animates the images on its screen. A friction plate forces the viewers to exert themselves physically. Turning the monitor in one direction, the viewer rotates a virtual millstone and grinds grain into flour. Pushing it in the other direction, he interactively rifles through a large number of images that signalise many of the major social uprisings and revolutions over the last 200 years worldwide. These images - all originally created for An Imaginary Museum of Revolutions (1988) - are digitally processed collages made from documentary photographic sources.
Keywords
  • aesthetics
    • installation-based
    • interactive
    • narrative
  • genres
    • installations
      • interactive installations
  • subjects
    • Arts and Visual Culture
      • perspective
    • History and Memory
      • collective memory
      • history
    • Power and Politics
      • authority
      • equality
      • governance
    • Society and Culture
      • activism
    • Technology and Innovation
      • history of technology
      • invention
  • technology
    • hardware
      • video (analog)
Technology & Material
Material
steel bar, column-mounted monitor, computer, laser-disc based
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