Hans-Jürgen Lannoch, Helga Lannoch

Bumerang

1980

Artist / Artist group
Hans-Jürgen Lannoch, Helga Lannoch
Title
Bumerang
Year
1980
Category
sculpture, Cast
Material / Technique
Aluminum
Dimensions / Duration
87 x 59 x 3 cm
Collection
ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
Description

In Boomerang, a control keyboard merges into a finger swiping across a surface. This artistically anticipated and critically scrutinised the gesture and swipe controls that are now commonplace in the digital world - 10 years before the internet was invented and 27 years before the first iPhone with swipe controls came onto the market.

Now we are experiencing how not only bodies and user interfaces are merging, but how our ability to think can hardly be distinguished from artificial intelligence. The boomerang is a tool that can strike back.

Author: Helga und Hans-Jürgen Lannoch