M e d i a   D i e s e l
Andrea Zapp
EYE 2 EYE
Networked installation, Chelyabinsk - Ekaterinburg
June 20-22, 2006

Two remote identical black wooden boxes are connected via the Internet using I Sight cameras and an I Chat video interface:

Visitors glimpse through a small peephole into the box. An invisible camera inside on the opposite wall captures their eyes and transfers it to the other box, where it is displayed underneath the camera on a small round-shaped projection screen and vice versa. Both participants exchange their views in real-time, looking into each other's eyes. This surveillance interface inside the box is embedded into a stage like miniature set of an earth globe below and amidst a starry sky with little colourful planets dotted around that seem to float in the space. It recalls a satellite perspective, which is underlined by the surveillance interface above; but the view onto this small universe glowing in the dark, reminiscent of toys even, implicates ironic commentaries in itself resulting in thoughts about who controls and who observes whom in a more globally networked sense.