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MIRROR SWIRL MONUMENTAL TOWER WERTANLAGEN 1 WERTANLAGEN 2 NOTANGO TOTAL AUSVERKAUF
WERTANLAGEN 1, Group exhibition
INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS for Sparkasse Vest Bank, Recklinghausen, 2006
The WERTANLAGEN
exhibition took place in the area of the bank where the ATMs, account statement printers, and money-counting machines are situated. Adressing the theme of WERTE (VALUES) I developed an ATM interface where bank customers were not asked the usual questions about how much money they wanted to withdraw, but questioned about what values are really important to them: Love? Money? Health? Trust? Freedom? According to their answer, they received an individualized bank statement. This was complemented by an internet site asking the same questions, where the results were diplayed in the form of stock market graphs, and by a new machine, a VALUES Ticker, based on the old stock market tickers, which intermittently spat out an oversized print-out quoting not the actual stock market figures, but statements about the respective value of money, love, happiness, security...