Remote Control

Visitors enter the installation »Remote Control« to find a sofa with a television set playing in front of it. An everyday scene – you sit down and watch TV. An apparently current news program is playing: in a virtual studio, a computer-animated news anchor reads out news reports that have been generated by accessing online newswires. A remote control can be used to flip to a second news channel broadcasting a mirror image of the same visual appearance. The news reports are just as current, but with complementary content. The two available channels are called »Truth 1« and »Truth 2«, but neither of them presents actual world events. Beyond this, the artist illuminates the believability of artificially constructed images; presciently, in the 1990s he raised the question of what significance newscasters hold in the evaluation of news.