Julius von Bismarck: Image Fulgurator, 2007/08

Aparat zur minimal-invasiven Manipulation von Fotographien.

This video shows an Intervention at the Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin. (former border of east and west Germany) The target of the manipulation was the famous "YOU ARE ENTERING THE AMERICAN SECTOR" - sign.
The manipulation created a link from the former East / West border to the US / Mexican border in order to reimagine the dramatic situation at worldwide borders today. The message was addressed to the tourists on location, that can travel easily over every border without risking their life.

People's great trust in their photographic reproductions of reality was what motivated me to develop the *Image Fulgurator*. A camera can be used as a personal memory tool, since people do not doubt the veracity of their own photographs. Hence, photos can reproduce the reality of an individual environment or public space. At sacred or popular locations, or those having a political connotation, an intervention with the Fulgurator can be particularly effective. Especially objects with a special aura or great symbolic power are good targets for this kind of manipulation. In other words, with the Fulgurator it is possible to have a lasting effect on those kinds of individual moments and events that become accessible to the masses only because they are preserved photographically.

More info:
http://www.juliusvonbismarck.com/fulgurator/fertig.html

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• interactive
• art
• photography
• machine
• photo
• manipulation
• interface
• message
• Ars
• Electronica

[VerbekeMarc]

who made the music for this video? what's this name of this masterpiece?

[ErikCartman]

the best of withe america!

fooled into wars by bush and the israely lobby. ready to serve.

and with this great christian attitude towars minorities. letting people die on the sidewalk or deny insurance cause you haven't denounced a "severe acne"

you are ridicolous and beware most of your army is made by minorities

plz don't tell me my eng is bad

[Bestmountjoy]

Better yet, ... fulgurate a big, dirty, stinky, bunyuned, black, carbon "footprint" over Obomanation's quisling smile.

R3volution or bust!

[resmomo]

genial! and i think, it was very clever of julius, that he became a cetification for his creation. To protect the evil economic abuse!!!

[nubbs]

sdasdfasf

[sa7sul]

Beautiful idea, I am glad that some free minded artist has got it and not a company or some business man.

[urbanartistique]

Nice! Seems like an amazing devive. Its either a clever hoax or a true innovation.

[westeightyone]

What you say you saw and what you say you see.

The Fulgurator: 'You'll begin to doubt your own eyes'.