execute

From Rhizome Artbase
zohar kfir
2007
Description

Execute is an on line interactive video which examines the [political] barrier between language, actions and their meanings.
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In work of Zohar Kfir Execute the viewer turned to accomplice - or objector in a process of execution. The execution process, probably recorded from TV, split to several movies presented in chronological order. An interactive video, a linear narrative, divided in simple and direct way, places the spectator in a dilemma: to become an executioner or to stop the execution in a virtual way. User becomes responsible, in the linear path of restructured and unavoidable execution. Simple interaction endows the "PLAY" button with a new signification of aesthetic, human and political responsibility.

zohar kfir
9 March 2007

Execute is an on line interactive video which examines the [political] barrier between language, actions and their meanings.
In this work the viewer turned to accomplice - or objector in a process of execution. The execution process is split to several movies presented in chronological order.
An interactive video, a linear narrative, divided in simple and direct way, places the spectator in a dilemma: to become an executioner or to stop the execution in a virtual way. User becomes responsible, in the linear path of restructured and unavoidable execution. Simple interaction endows the "PLAY" button with a new signification of aesthetic, human and political responsibility.

zohar kfir
9 March 2007
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2007
zohar kfir