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Marie Sester ACCESS

Discipline
Emerging Fields
Medium
New Genres
Subject

Environment

Public Space
State
New York
Year
2002
Status
Completed

Description

ACCESS addresses and explores the impact of surveillance and detection within contemporary society. It is a public art installation in which a robotic spotlight controlled by web-users tracks individuals in public spaces. An acoustic beam system directs sounds onto the same tracked persons, projecting audio that only they can hear. The individuals do not know who is tracking them or why. Nor are they aware of being the only person among the public hearing the sound. The trackers don’t know that their actions trigger sound towards the target. In effect, both the tracker and the tracked are in a paradoxical communication loop.

Marie Sester

Marie Sester is a media artist, trained as an architect in the Ecole d’Architecture de Strasbourg (DPLG, 1980). Her work combines paradigms of …
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Project Updates

2011: ACCESS is exhibited at Z33 in Belgium
2010: ACCESS is exhibited at SFMOMA, with an interactive online component
2003: A prototype version of ACCESS is exhibited at Eyebeam in New York
2007: New and definitive version of ACCESS is produced and is planned as a limited edition of 5
2008: A variation of ACCESS, “ACCESS at the Public,” is permanently installed at Public Gallery, West Bromwich, United Kingdom
2006: ACCESS is part of the collection and permanently installed at ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany