About Expo[re]view

Expo[re]review is a framework for capturing people's exhibition visits; a small camera is placed in wearable object- a tie or scarf- to be worn by any visitor willing to participate in the making of an on-line video catalog of the exhibition. All you're asked to do is walk through the show as you normally would and let the camera film what you see. Your footage is then downloaded into a computer where it will be cut-up and labelled with various keywords. The resulting videos are uploaded to the Expo[re]review website creating an on-line video catalog of that particular exhibition, a show and tell as it were of what different, yet quite individual ways visitors experience an exhibition. It provides an interesting alternative to the kind of information that is normally provided from the perspective of a museum, gallery and/ or artist.

The Expo[re]review website is filled randomly with videos made by previous visitors to the exhibition, with one video spotlighted. Surrounding this centralised video are all related videos to its keywords. You can choose to follow the trail the first video takes you on or use the sites search possibility by typing in keywords like a person's name, work title or date of visit.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please send an email to exporeview@onilee.nl

Device Art

This project is influenced by the Japanese Device Art movement, which investigates art projects at the interface of art, technology and entertainment.

Japanese artists like to show people what is happening in their work. They let them participate but also contribute in the work and want to interest them in technology. Artists arrange the setting, but the contents of the experience are up to the participant and the process is just as important as the result. The attitude of the artists towards technology is positive and their works are often playful and humorous although they want to be critical towards society and the technologies used as well.

With this project I would like to involve visitors into a shared project and with their help show an exhibition in a different way, namely through the eyes of an other person. As viewer of this video catalog you will get a nice idea of what the exhibition is like and what people think about the works shown. As an artist I set the boundaries, but without the help of visitors I can't establish the result.

By using colorful ties and scarves I hope to make it also an enjoyable, fun experience. The design and technique is kept as simple and accessible as possible and therefore easy understandable for its users.

[Thesis] Device Art: An exclusively Japanese movement or a model for Western artists?