The Machine

Digital installation, 2001
Ingredients: monitor Ø 55 cm, computer, big red panic button, wood, sound.

Somewhere in the corner is a monitor with a big red button next to it. It produces the sound of a machine, running with a constant hum. The image seems abstract; some gray-ish shapes.
If a visitor presses the red button, the machine rattles and a plastic cup falls into the image. The buzzing continues. Press the button again and the cup starts to shake and seems to get filled with a liquid. After a while the cup disappears. It turns out to be a coffee machine.
This work belongs in a corner, like an office coffee maker, were people can gather and discuss the meaning of life and other daily matters.