Installation view, “Taystes_room” 2002.
Installation/sculpture view, “Taystes_room” 2001 multimedia work is designed specifically for Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester UK in collaboration of the artist with Andreas Angelidakis, architect and it has been produced as a special project for “Broken Channel” exhibition by Futuresonic 01, Festival. The installation has been conceived as a life size recreation of an elaborate voyeuristic cluster of six individual hubs covered with mirrors and equipped with LCD screen and computers create an environment, which fuses performance and sculpture, and the viewer is pulled into a vortex of voyeurism and dislocation. The “room” as an intimate space is no longer intimate .It is monitored and codified under the sign of surveillance.
Screen shot of web page, www.taystes.net This open source internet project was co production with The Banff Center for the Arts, in Alberta, Canada and ESC IM LABOR in Graz, Austria. As its name suggests, taystes.net is a sampling of network activity in real-time through different components. The 'grabber'; the 'chatterbox', which makes anonymous textual interventions into chat rooms and the 'tayster' tool with which users can utilize data as a medium to apply applications and create visual experiences.