SELFPORTRAIT (AUTOPORTRAIT) - 1991
In the exhibition space, a robot arrow indicated where Stéphan Barron could be found.
Stéphan Barron built this telephone operated robot in Collaboration with the engineer Jerome Gilbert, a specialist in home automation. The robot, in response to the digital frequencies emitted by the telephone, could point in 8 different directions (north-north-east, east, south-east, south, south-west, west, north-west).
Stéphan Barron moved around the exhibition space and communicated the different directions to the robot from public phones. He then pretended to leave on a "European tour" and stayed two weeks at home.
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Vidéo of the performance in Caen in 1991 :
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Text KOSIK Antonin, "Autoportrét", Atelier, n°3, 10 février 1994, Prague, p.15
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Exhibition in Fache-Thumesnil in 1993 |
More detailed texts on this artwork are available from Stéphan BARRON's HDR on Technoromanticism's website and in the Earth Art CD Rom