To figure out if a machine is thinking, you would have to be a machine yourself and then feel that you are thinking.
drawings for interactive cd-rom, 1998
A quarter of a century ago, the rapid development of digital technologies playfully prompted the following questions: Does the human brain really function like a hard disk? Search – select? Or the other way around: Is a machine capable of thinking? This question, which became known as the “touring test”, led to a further examination of the complex findings of brain research: basically, the seat of consciousness could still not be localized. So beyond biochemistry, was it all just imagination? At the same time, there was a flood of advice books suggesting how we could better operate and, above all, control the machine in our heads: Think more beautifully!
installation with video and interactive CD-ROM galerie im Parkhaus, Berlin 1998
Brain User’s Guide
The project traces with ironic distance the fascination for associative links as digital visualization … The self-performance simulates experimental measurements with mechanical devices on the head and an anonymous voice gives instructions: An organization in the background advertises to connect thinking to a database. Today, we are actually almost there … Social engineering and cognitive warfare send their regards … What is actually inside of our own heads …?
Service Block
test subject 2 service Block, video installation traffic pulpit at joachimsthaler platz, kurfürstendamm, Berlin 1999
kopfkontakt, 1999 Website parallel to the Installation in public space
“My brain volume is already affiliated with the organisation.”
