Big Printer is an interactive installation for the Goethe-Institut Pop Up Pavilion in Breslau. Visitors are photographed, printed, and shredded, making the loss of control over personal data physically perceptible.
Our Role Concept, Production, Sound design, Music Composition & Production, Scenography, Mix & Master, On-site Implementation // Comissioned by Goethe Institut Breslau // Concept, Production, Programming schnellebuntebilder // Year 2016
The installation was conceived with SCHNELLEBUNTEBILDER as part of the Goethe-Institut Pop Up Pavilion in Breslau. The container became a symbol for the digital world: a seemingly transparent but incomprehensible space in which every step and action is recorded and stored.
Visitors approaching the container were captured by a camera system and photographed without consent. Each picture was printed and shredded, showing how deletion can remain an illusion even when data seems to disappear.
We created a generative composition by amplifying and modulating the noises made by the printer and complemented it with sounds of distorted human speech. The result was a cold, machine-like musical landscape, emotionless and menacing.
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