- Artist/s
- Alba d’Urbano
- Title
- Touch Me
- Year
- 1995
- Category
- Computer-based
- Installation
- Material / Technique
wooden cabinet, computer (PC, operating system: Windows 95, video card (SMII 22a BMK), custom software), CRT monitor with touch-screen, lipstick camera
- Dimensions / Duration
- 180 x 54 x 50 cm
- Collection
ZKM | Center for Art and Media
- Description
A monitor is embedded at head height in a square wooden stele. The monitor image shows a video image of a woman's head. It is a portrait of the artist. She kisses the viewer's hand. It is an invitation to interact: the viewer should touch the monitor. By touching the touch screen at the eyes, nose or mouth, the portrait image changes. It partially dissolves. If you linger in front of the stele for a while, you are surprised by an image overlay: your own face appears in the area of the half-destroyed face, recorded by a small camera above the monitor.
By asking viewers to touch her face, Alba d'Urbano encourages them to overwrite the usual norms of behaviour. With "Touch me", she also shows how the genre of the portrait and self-perception are changing through the use of digital media.
Images
Alba d’Urbano, »Touch Me«, 1995, wooden cabinet, computer (PC, operating system: Windows 95, video card (SMII 22a BMK), custom software), CRT monitor with touch-screen, lipstick camera, 180 x 54 x 50 cm. ZKM | Center for Art and Media © VG Bild-Kunst, Bo© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn; Photo © ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Photo: Steffen Harms
Alba d’Urbano, »Touch Me«, 1995, computer-based interactive sculpture, 180 x 54 x 50 cm, ZKM | Collection© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn; Photo © ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Photo: Steffen Harms
Alba d’Urbano, »Touch Me«, 1995, computer-based interactive sculpture, 180 x 54 x 50 cm, ZKM | Collection© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn; Photo © ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Photo: Steffen Harms
Alba d’Urbano, »Touch Me«, 1995, computer-based interactive sculpture, 180 x 54 x 50 cm, ZKM | Collection© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn; Photo © ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Photo: Steffen Harms
