Installation view | Heiligenkreuzerhof Vienna, Diploma exhibition 2017 | photo: Peter Kainz
Traces of Seemingly Insignificant Gestures
Photogrammetry, Steel, Installation, 2017
Not only did the use of technology like our smartphones change the way we communicate with each other; it also produced a whole series of new gestures, the gesture of writing, for example. Sending text messages means to move our fingers around on our screens. A process that leaves traces as stains of fat on these shiny and sleek surfaces. These traces can be seen, when we turn off our phones and the light shines onto the black screen. But there are also algorithms that can identify us by the way we write. Our typing dynamics can be seen like our personal handwriting, our fingerprint. In a process of recreating those movements of writing, a series of photograms have been produced to make traces usually volatile traces visible and permanent. They show a new way of writing, a new kind of script – brought forward by technology. But also do they question the mechanisms of power related to the constant monitoring and analyzing of our actions.
Photogrammetry (15x10cm), Steel tables, Glass, black paint LED
Photogrammetry reproductions: 60x40cm (Edition 5+2)
Exhibition view “The Essence” | University of Applied Arts, Alte Post, 2017 | photo: (c) Virgil Widrich
Installation view with Philipp Pess | Ars Electronica Festival 2018, Bildrecht Gallery Space | photo: Philipp Pess
Installation view with Philipp Pess | Ars Electronica Festival 2018, Bildrecht Gallery Space | photo: Philipp Pess
Installation view | Heiligenkreuzerhof Vienna, Diploma exhibition 2017 | photo: Peter Kainz