Installation view, “Red Eyed Skywalkers “, 2007 is a site-specific public artwork in the heart of Theater Platz and Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, co produced by Plug In Gallery and Shift Festival. The design and the sequencing of the work consist of small wifi video cameras attached on 99 red weather balloons inflated with helium. The cameras capture live aerial data around the Plaza and through the Internet broadcast nine single channels of live and archived streaming data, which is displayed on 8 flat screens located in Dreispitz.The artist by fusing art and technology creates a strikingly beautiful vision which transforms the public space for the 21st century. “ Redeyed Skywalkers” is a celebration of the spectacle, excess, beauty and desire of contemporary culture and a provocative comment on the issues of surveillance, fear and control in our society.
