Translations:Preserveren van digitale kunst: uitdagingen en oplossingen uit de praktijk/17/en

Re-installation and preservation of computer-based interactive installation by Dutch artist Bill Spinhoven Van Oosten

Bill Spinhoven Van Oosten created the computer-based interactive installation I/Eye in 1993. The artwork consists of a video screen, a camera, and a computer with the software required for the installation. The video screen displays a giant human eye – the eye of the artist – which fills the entire screen in black and white. The visitor is essential in this artwork because their movement controls the eye’s movements. The eye doesn’t move to begin with. Then it follows the visitor’s movements as the visitor approaches the installation, so the artist is actually turning the observer into the observed.