General:
Mobile phones are operating as virtual agents. These virtual Agents are sharing their pornographical footage via Bluetooth and thereby driving each other towards orgasms. The more animations a mobile phone has, the faster it starts displaying them until it reaches its climax. Then the search for new input starts again.
Application:
When sending animations to another phone, system alert windows appear after each other both on the display of the sending and receiving phone, informing about the disconnection between the two phones. All phones were given names so that the connection is read between two persons. Additionally, a beeping sound announces the movement of data.
When reaching its climax, a mobile phone starts displaying a biting mouth and vibrates. Thereafter, a rather tired appearing eye is displayed, right before the processus starts again.
Animations:
The pornographical images are based on user generated content from the internet. The artist animated photos of amateurs playing porn in their rooms and in public places. The animations are triggered by a first simple movement of the body, which makes the performer more beautiful in terms of Photoshop. Then a second body trigger initiates the continuation of the masking processus until the player is fully masked. Then a third exterior trigger sets the picture in a different light in order to accentuate the function of the environment as a stage.
The animations of mouth and eyes are based on self portraits of the artist.
Title:
In information technology, telecommunications and related fields, handshaking is an automated process of negotiation that dynamically sets parameters of a communications channel established between two entities before normal communication over the channel begins.
Programming:
by Philipp Suter and Johnny Nia
Handshakes from Brigitte Dätwyler on Vimeo.
Mixed Media Installation and Video:
http://www.brigittedaetwyler.ch/mixed_media/handshakes
© by Brigitte Dätwyler 2010
filmed at Swiss Art Awards in Basel, Switzerland