Note: If you see this text you use a browser which does not support usual Web-standards. Therefore the design of Media Art Net will not display correctly. Contents are nevertheless provided. For greatest possible comfort and full functionality you should use one of the recommended browsers. |
Valie Export
«Autohypnosis»
‘Video systems have a socio-therapeutic dimension based, technologically speaking, on feedback, psychologically applied in the observation of one’s own behaviour, i.e. behavioural monitoring and correction. Here I convey this dimension in matrices derived from the psychology of learning: punishment and reward, desensitization and behavioural reinforcement as steps by which that line guaranteeing social adjustment through the social code can be followed between thought and deed.
Valie Export
A first interactive video installation in which the visitor paces out a specific code on the floor in order to trigger a signal to the video recorder, which then flashes a cheering crowd onto the monitor.