Archive of Digital Art (ADA). “Lynn Hershman Leeson - »Difference Engine #3«”. https://www.digitalartarchive.at/database/general/work/difference-engine-3.html (retrieved 1970-01-01).
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Technology
Descriptions & Essays
The Difference Engine #3 uses the architecture of the ZKM Media Museum as a 3D template and the visitors to the museum as the interface. It is an interactive, multi-user, sculpture about surveillance, voyeurism, digital absorption and spiritual transformation of the body.
The Difference Engine #3 was inspired by Charles Babbage's original Difference Engine # 1 (commonly considered the world's first computer). The original machine was used to calculate numerical positions. This piece calculates the captured image and position in the physical/virtual space of visitors to a physical space, located now at The ZKM Media Museum.
