BATTLE OVER INDIFFERENT MINDS (2000)
The battle over indifferent minds is an interactive version of historic battlescene paintings. It reflects and questions the sublime depictions of violence. The aim of the installation is to make a wiever visible in the process of watching by revealing the mechanics in the both sides of the screen. The installation is a combination of old and new media techniques and so in a sense a media archeological work. A machinery of a flatbed scanner captures wiever´s faces while they are watching “the magic lantern” of a battlescene. The photographing lamp of the scanner in front of the battlescene acts as a curtain between the image and the wiever and thus edits the object of our gaze. Behind the screen moving colored light is projected on the immobile toysoldiers so that their shadows appear to dance in slowmotion for the wiever on the other side. The scanned image of a wiever is then combined and blended with composited images of toy soldiers and real soldiers and projected in the gallery space.