»Revolution«
Light Box

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Information
Jeffrey Shaw >
»Revolution«, 1990
Co-Workers & Funding:
with Tjebbe van TijenSoftware: Gideon May
Hardware: Bas Bossinade, Charly Jungbauer, Huib Nelissen
Technology
Material
steel bar, column-mounted monitor, computer, laser-disc based
Descriptions & Essays
In this interactive laser-disc-based work the viewer has to push a protruding steel bar to rotate a column-mounted monitor which in turn animates the images on its screen. A friction plate forces the viewers to exert themselves physically. Turning the monitor in one direction, the viewer rotates a virtual millstone and grinds grain into flour. Pushing it in the other direction, he interactively rifles through a large number of images that signalise many of the major social uprisings and revolutions over the last 200 years worldwide. These images - all originally created for An Imaginary Museum of Revolutions (1988) - are digitally processed collages made from documentary photographic sources.
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