Vertigo in the Face of the Infinite

At the exhibition from October 20, 2017 to August 5, 2018

»Vertigo in the Face of the Infinite« describes various interrelated and productive digital and physical elements. A stack of found objects extends endlessly in height, comprised of 3-D models sourced from the Internet, and viewable as an infinite scroll website. Visitors to the site can have their gaze captured and added to the tower via the cameras on their devices. The website also has a physical storefront in the exhibition, comprised of point-of-sale tablets and a showcase of 3-D prints. Here, the towering website appears as a tall, scrollable multi-screen display.

The complete artwork is productive for interrelations between operator-spectators and machinic processes, entangled in the production of objects made on demand, as well as a virtually infinite 3-D column. The artwork reflects the wider human engagement with ongoing web-based newsfeeds and social media where information is vertically stacked and open for contributions in order to stimulate continued use. The altitudes that such newsfeeds achieve arguably cause a new kind of vertigo of informational overload and Internet compulsions.