DIVIDED TV-NATION
ZKM Center for Arts and Media Karlsruhe 2001
For the award of the ZKM prize, Achim Mohné was disguised as a security officer with a radio-controlled spy camera and received all the arriving guests, dividing them into a "medial two-class society". In the entrance hall the guests were informed of the constant and uncontrollable observation that will take place all evening long and were told they will be able to protect their private sphere from transmission by wearing a sticker. The claim was that the logo on the sticker, filtered by a visual computer recognition system, will allow, with the greatest possible certainty, the visitors so marked to be excluded from being fed into the TV/Internet. However, the right to "one's own image" have already been undermined. The instruction and classification of the visitors wasrecorded by Achim Mohné's camera hidden in his shirt collar and telecast, time-delayed in word and sound, in the main hall of the event. When they enter the room, the guests can watch themselves as they make their decision. Approximatly one third of the 400 visitors wore the sticker during the event.
PLACE(S) OF EXHIBITION:
- ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe 2002 www.zkm.de
CATALOGUE / PUBLICATION:
- Achim Mohné, „Panopticon“, Hrsg.: Forum Ludwig Aachen
