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Alba D'Urbano «Esposizione Impraticabile»
Alba D'Urbano, «Esposizione Impraticabile», 1996
Photograph: Nicolas Reichelt | © Alba D'Urbano
The interactive computer simulation of an exhibition room. Using a space mouse mounted on a stele, the visitor could interactively move in any desired direction in a virtual space created by a computer. If he approached the pictures mounted on its walls, transformations were generated in these spots. The original painting dissolved first into coarser pixels and then into the ASCII-code data of the picture. In the corridor, the institute's illuminated boxes contained supplementary reproductions of the pictures and printouts of the ASCII images, including those of the medial presentations.


 
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Categories: Installation

Keywords: Closed-Circuit | Concept | Space

Works by Alba D'Urbano:

Hautnah


Frankfurt/Main | Germany
 

 Alba D'Urbano
«Esposizione Impraticabile»

The starting-point for this work is an exhibition of images that is not «practicable,» not accessible.
In the version called «In Vitro» for the Institut für Neue Medien (INM) in Frankfurt/M., the institute's rooms, techniques and reproduction resources were included in the show. Visitors could move through the different rooms as if they were going through the various stages of a prescribed route. Alongside the closed exhibition space, which had a remote-controlled camera at its centre, media representations of the pictures that could not be experienced directly could be seen. The ground plan of the Institut für Neue Medien (INM) shows the various exhibition rooms or studios.
Alba D'Urbano