"YOU:R:CODE", an interactive installation with multi-channel projection

"YOU:R:CODE" opens the exhibition "Open Codes". The title can be read in two different ways: The reading "your code" refers to the fact that visitors to the installation experience digital transformations of themselves in various ways. If they still see their own mirror image in the entrance - the most real virtual image we can imagine - the mirror image is increasingly transformed into a digital data body until the visitors are finally reduced to an industrially readable code. In the end, they free themselves from the virtual representation and are materialized via a flip-dot display. The second reading, "you are code", reveals that we ourselves are made up of code, which manifests itself, among other things, in the genetic code. It forms the algorithm of life and determines our actions from birth. In current research projects, synthesized DNA strands are even used for compact long-term storage of digital data. But even the data analysts and artificial intelligence operating in clouds, who give us our daily instructions for action via smartphones, only perceive us in the form of sensor data and through our electronic utterances - for them we are codes.

Idea: Peter Weibel
Concept, Realization: Bernd Lintermann
audio design: Ludger Brümmer, Yannick Hofmann
Flip dot display: Christian Lölkes
Technical support: Manfred Hauffen, Jan Gerigk
Construction, planning: Thomas Schwab
Excited by: Peter Weibel
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