Surface Tension
"Surface Tension" is an interactive installation where an image of a giant human eye follows the observer with orwellian precision.This work was inspired by a reading of Georges Bataille's text The Solar Anusduring the first Gulf War: first wide-spread deployment of camera-guided "intelligent bombs". Present-day computerised surveillance techniques employed by the Department of Homeland Security in the United States through the Patriot Act, provide a new and distressing backdrop for this piece.
The installation was originally developed in 1992 at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid as a stage module for a theatre work by the Transition State Theory troupe. Since then, Surface Tension has been presented as an art installation, typically on a plasma screen.
| Name in spanish: | Tensión Superficial |
| Year of Creation: | 1992 |
| Technique: | Plasma or rear-projection screen, computerised surveillance system, custom-made software |
| Dimensions: | Variable dimensions |
| Edition: | 5 copies + 1 AP |
| Keywords: | database, indoor, interactive, performance, projection, tracker. |
| Collections: | Colección/Fundación Jumex (Mexico City), Cisneros Fontanals Foundation (Miami), Jonathon Carroll Collection (NYC), Speyer Family Collection (NYC) and Daros Latinamerica (Zürich) |
