Senseless Arabesques
Kala Gallery, Berkeley, CAThe installation Senseless Arabesques playfully investigates contemporary facial animation technologies in the context of biometrics, historical and cultural methods of measuring the human body and topographic mapping. It questions the power structures of measuring and mapping and how geography is constructed through ideologies. In the video, Christoph uses combinations of current 3D mapping and photogrammetry tools to (re)animate his own face. Digital prints explore notions of graphic projections that translate spatial data into flattened maps, intersecting digital UV maps, geographic information systems, acupuncture meridians and taxidermy. Christoph’s work ultimately highlights how people’s faces have become politically charged topographies.
Video, 3D Modelling, Animation, Wallpaper Design, Prints: Christoph Steger
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