Mobile consists of 59 oval panes of Plexiglas silk printed with beards, eyes, glasses, etc... The panes are suspended from the ceiling at eye level so that viewers can Interact with them. The physiognomic details of Mobile are taken from the Identikit program run by the state Criminal Bureau in Munich, where, in line with witnesses' descriptions, faces of criminals are drawn for "wanted" posters.
See Book : T.Y. Levin, U. Frohne, P. Weibel, 2002, [CTRL] SPACE Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother, ZKM Center for the Art and Media, Karlshruhe, Germany; and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, p.202-203.
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