Max
Kazemzadeh's 2003-2004 ArtWorks
(Prices Given On Request)
“Target Audience (Point and Shoot)” -
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variable dimensions
computer, 1940's 3rd reich machine gun (Irma), subwoofer, speakers, touch sensor,
digital video spy camera
Exhibited in "Curious Comforts" solo exhibition, Studio 107 Gallery,
Austin, TX, June-Aug. 2004
Press: http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2004-06-25/arts_feature4.html
(to read article)
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Target Audience is a piece that converts the virtual first person shooter computer
gaming interface into a real active live interaction between the person holding
the gun and the rest of the gallery goers. Target Audience welcomes the viewer
to pick up, point, and shoot an actual (de-milled) antique Third Reich "Irma"
Machine Pistola.
The gun has been wired with trigger sensors and a video camera that feeds directly
into a custom computer interface that responds by projecting real-time video
taken from wherever the gun is pointed. When the person pointing the gun shoots,
the crosshairs align and whatever is projected on screen is then covered in
a animated red wash, and sound of war and the actual machine gun play through
the speakers.
In some installations the projection is displayed on a two way screen so that
spectators on either side can see where the gun is being pointed and who is
being shot. At Studio 107, the real-time video was projected on the front window
so that passers by outside the gallery could watch what was going on inside
the gallery from the scope of a gun.
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