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WEB SITE / INSTALLATION / PERFORMANCE
ONE
APPLE CAN HIDE ANOTHER…
IUKB
(Kurt Bosch Institute), SION, SWITZERLAND
OCTOBER 1999
http://www.fredforest.org/pomme/default.htm
Objective
reality, representation, and virtual simulation are juxtaposed
and intertwined in this meditation on the apple created for
a conference on the intersection of art and science held at
a university research institute specialized in agronomy and
ecological issues. The installation is set up near large bay
windows offering a superb view of the institute’s apple
orchards—a view blocked, à la Magritte, by a
screen on which live closed circuit television images of the
same trees is to be seen. Facing the screen is another screen—a
computer screen on which is displayed the artist’s web
site devoted it the apple, which includes a virtual tree whose
apples the viewer is invited to pick.
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