Installation
Title:
BANKSTATEMENTGENERATOR
100x150x200cm, unique copy
computer installation, 2005
Author: UBERMORGEN.COM
Authenticity as consensual hallucination!
"Just pixels on a screen -
just ink on paper"
The BANKSTATEMENTGENERATOR is an online engine - in the Form of a white Tower, a white cube ATM-Machine - that generates individual bank statements. If you need a absurde positive or negative bank statement, generate it. In doing so, the user is free to determine the amount and type of deposits and credits as well as the degree of design abstraction of the resulting document, an [F]original that manifests itself as an array of pixels on the monitor screen.
The core theme of this project is described in the slogan "just pixels on a screen - just ink on paper" and consolidated in the term "authenticity as consensual hallucination" (Inke Arns). The focus shifts from the authenticity in the time of analogue / technical reproduction (signature) towards authenticity in the time of informational reprogramability (automatically generated bank-statements).
In the UBERMORGEN.COM universe, this project can be seen in the tradition of "Legal Art" and specifically the "[F]originals - forged original documents - series. A Foriginal is always original and unique. Foriginals are pixels on screens or substance on material [i.e. ink on paper]. [F]originals are non pragmatic - they are absurd. They do not tell you whether they are real or forged - there is no original but also no fully forged / faked document. Foriginals can be human or machine generated; Foriginals are digital or analog, foriginals are singular multiples.
The installation
was presented at [plug:in] Basel and at Ars Electronica 2005 Linz
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