Hand modified hacked Super Mario Brothers cartridge. Characters and backgrounds were erased and replaced with abstract shapes/colors/patterns - an investigation of game aesthetics and human memory.
Kajsa Dahlberg
We notice no disturbances, all are happy and friendly, (Postcards from Jerusalem 22/4 1911–24/1 1999)
Installation with 500 postcards, mirrors, boxes and tables. Dimensions 2 x 6 meters.
Installation with 500 postcards, mirrors, boxes and tables. Dimensions 2 x 6 meters.
Anu Vahtra
linkThe series 100 squares deals with portraiture. The very classical sense of the term suggested by traditional framing and lighting which appears to the viewer at the first glance, is confronted by the content of the work.
The 9 men, potential world champions of international checkers are asked to reenact their thinking-positions which during the game appear spontaneously. We could consider the individually unique pose of thinking as a ritual which triggers the brain and "isolates" the player from his surrounding in order to fully concentrate on the next step. The main goal of the series is to show if and how it is possible to manipulate something so natural to human kind.
By taking the players out of their context and removing the game board, the competition situation is vanished and the focusing point disappeared. The attempt of the thinkers to concentrate on concentrating becomes a pose on its own and makes it hard to determine if the moment captured is fake or real.
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