Photogram, installation detail
In the early 19th century, the Claude Glass was a common tool among picturesque artists: A small, convex black mirror that could fit in the pocket and helped to frame the beauty of a scenery. Today, the shiny surface of our smartphones or tablets mirrors the surroundings. But the reflection often turns out to be less than perfect, stained, disrupted by traces of grease and dirt.
With Traces of Seemingly Insignificant Gestures Michaela Putz presents a series of photograms rendering our daily, bodily interactions visible on the screen.
Focusing on the gestures of writing and swiping the artist demonstrates that the use of current communication devices creates a new kind of personal handwriting: A smudged script, as unique as a fingerprint, so that algorithms can identify us by the way we write. Michaela Putz (b. 1984, AT), lives and works in Vienna.
