Giny Vos
Projects
Head Room
Head Room, 1994

Algemeen Rijksarchief, Den Haag

The theme of Head Room –storage and data processing- was inspired by the place where the work was first shown: a basement. The installation consists of five identical filing cabinets on metal rails. Between the third and the fourth cabinet a small passage has been left open, through which one can glimpse inside: 120 filing boxes, each supplied with a small screen which displays red digital letters with short intervals. At any given moment, eight of the screens make letter combinations forming words: associations based on various functions of the brain. A sound installation producing the reverberation of a working brain reinforces the suggestion of communicating hemispheres in the human cerebrum.

Dim. 180 x 180 x 400 cm
Wood, cardboard, aluminium, LED displays

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Location: De Werfkelders, Utrecht; travelling exhibition
Exhibition: ‘Traject’
Production: TU Delft, Rob Jongbloed
Photography: Gert Jan van Rooij
Support: Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds
Collection: Algemeen Rijksarchief, The Hague