interactive installation

Hristo Kolev - Christobel

(BG) 

10-14.09.2013, 11:00 – 20:00 

Akademia Gallery, NAA

Often our imperfect human senses lie and delude us restricting themselves only to what can be seen, heard and sensed. Few are those initiated into the secrets of pensiveness and otherworldliness. Today we call them scientists, but in the past they were known as wizards. Even today the scientific discoveries that lead to the healing of hitherto incurable diseases sound as magic, because as in the past, is now and will be in future every forward-thinking technology is nearly impossible to tell from magic.

“Infrared Mona” is an interactive installation that seeks to show us a tiny portion of the invisible world around us. It is a black silk cloth with sizes 77 x 53 cm (the original's exact measures) mounted in a framework. An infrared image of Leonardo's immortal "Mona Lisa" is projected onto the cloth. The only way for the viewer to the image is to look at the painting through the gaze of the digital camera. It is precisely the technology that's built in all contemporary mobile phones will show the “Eureka” moment that was so far accessible only to the person looking through the lenses of the microscope and telescope.