OBSCURE CAMERA
Norway, 2007
Object, billboard
The idea considers a prototype of a new product: the Obscure Camera. It is some sort of helmet with a very simple engineering: hole, screen, covering. When you put on your head to present to you a distorted reality. Everything you see is turned upside down.I believe this object to fall into the category of “gizmo’s”: “some thing” that does have an operational value. “Gizmo” is always an indeterminate term with,in addition, a pejorative connotation. That is, it triggers contempt of the “thing without a name” or“the thing I cannot name”. The helmet is vague in terms of functionality; it has no more, but also no less than an imaginary functionality. more...
