IUKB
(Kurt Bosch Institute), SION, SWITZERLAND
OCTOBER 1999
http://www.fredforest.org/pomme/default.htm
Objective
reality, representation, and virtual simulation are juxtaposed and
intertwined in this meditation on the apple created for a conference
on the intersection of art and science held at a university research
institute specialized in agronomy and ecological issues. The installation
is set up near large bay windows offering a superb view of the institute’s
apple orchards—a view blocked, à la Magritte, by a
screen on which live closed circuit television images of the same
trees is to be seen. Facing the screen is another screen—a
computer screen on which is displayed the artist’s web site
devoted it the apple, which includes a virtual tree whose apples
the viewer is invited to pick.