Simonetta Fadda

Videogame 1987

Digitized VHS video, B/W, 30 minutes

A false mirror inside a television set. An enigma, for reflecting on the complexity of images re-production by camera.

Still from Videogame, 1987 (digitized VHS video, B/W, 30 minutes, recorded at the TVCC installation made for “Poesia e Musica nei Castelli”, curated by Giuseppe Chiari, Tavarnelle Val di Pesa-Florence, 1987)
Components
Components of the TVCC installation made in 1987 for “Poesia e Musica nei Castelli”, curated by Giuseppe Chiari, Tavarnelle Val di Pesa-Florence”
Components Hackmit
Components of the TVCC installation made in 2007 for “Hack’mit! Medien und Kunst für Leben”, curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli, Mach’mit Museum für Kinder, Berlin 2007

Interactive TVCC video installation with magnifying glass

A game to be shared, for experimenting with new images of one's own body. A way for training in changing one's point of view on the shape of things.

Components

  • n. 1 video camera
  • n. 1 tripod
  • n. 1 monitor 25 "
  • n. 1 magnifying glass, 50 x 70 cm
  • n. 1 magnifying glass holder
  • n. 1 A/V cable, 10 metres long

Instructions

The magnifying glass is placed on its holder. The monitor is placed below the magnifying glass. The monitor is connected to the video camera. The video camera is located behind the magnifying glass, approximately 2m away. The video camera sees the magnifying glass and a portion of the space surrounding it, so the connected monitor transmits an image in which a screen, consisting of the magnifying glass, can be seen in the middle of a space. Participants, alone or in groups, play with their own image, which is transmitted by the monitor with all kinds of aberrations created by the magnifying glass. So, participants can amuse themselves in freeing their imagination in the strangest combinations.