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Line - Johanna Reich (Germany, 2008, video, 2:20 min)

In the video Line, a high-resolution digital camera reaches its limits. A person dressed in black paints a black line on a wall. As a result of lighting conditions, the camera cannot differentiate between the black of the person and the black background. Artist and art fuse, the person seems to disappear in front of the camera. In a day and age where cameras observe us every minute, Line seems to be a humorous way to escape surveillance. DLP video projectors often used in recent cinemas reproduce black while sending no light. The black parts of the video turn off the light of the projector – a vanishing image.



 

 






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