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Since 1981 Franz
John has been working with the phenomenon of perceiving human and mechanical
interfaces. Machines and their sensors are to him in part an extended
evolutionary perception, quite human, subject to faults and errors.
With great sensitivity he can track down the barely noticeable and visualizes
this through technical means of the "new" and old media. However the
technical media approach serves as no end in itself, but remains a tool
to realize his rather philosophical-scientific work. Therefore his dealing with the media is rather poetic-playful. In return this gives his work despite a degree of discretion an immense presence and naturalness. He challenges traditional common sights, when, for example, he scanned the sky above a museum or reproduced a complete gallery space including furniture with a hand scanner and installed that copied space in the original room. For his project Balt-Orient- Express, a railway route which no longer exists, he traveled through the former Eastern block disguised as tourist with a laptop, a surveillance camera and a hand scanner, to capture the phenomenon of disappearance that eludes photography. To make the "unobservable" visible his project "Military Eyes" demonstrates this in an impressive way. He documented in the deserted military bunkers of the Golden Gate Marin headlands near San Francisco the view of "military eyes" through the camera obscura technique thereby simultaneously collecting photographically the inside and outside, past and present as a reference of former collective perception. --Christel Schuppenhauer . |
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