A Parallel Image
an installation by Gebhard Sengmüller, in collaboration with Franz Büchinger, supported by Fels-Multiprint
“A Parallel Image” is an electronic camera obscura. This media-archaeological, interactive sculpture is based on the fictive assumption that the currently still valid principle of electronically transmitting moving images, namely by breaking them down into single images and image lines, was never discovered. The result is an apparatus that attempts a highly elaborate parallel transmission of every single pixel from sender to receiver. This is only possible by connecting camera and monitor using about 2,500 cables. Unlike conventional electronic image transmission procedures, “A Parallel Image” is technologically completely transparent, conveying to the viewer a correspondence between real world and transmission that can be sensually experienced.
[pictures from the promotional brochure (images)]
[A Parallel Image Graphic Generator installation (images)]
[A Parallel Image Miniature Version installation (images)]
[A Parallel Image - Ampere, Ohm, Volta C-prints (images)]
[promotional video (video)]
[promotional brochure (pdf)]
[catalog text (pdf)]
[Graphic Generator text (pdf)]
A Parallel Image - Ampere, Ohm, Volta
Three C-prints laminated on Dibond, each measuring 100 x 100 cm. These are 1:1 reproductions of three stills generated by the “A Parallel Image” installation. They show the three physicists Alessandro Volta, André-Marie Ampère, and Georg Simon Ohm, after whom the electrical units underlying "A Parallel Image" were named.
Click on preview pics for screensize images (72 dpi).
Click on "printsize" for high resolution images for print use (up to 20x30 cm at 300 dpi).
All files are copyright © 2018 by Gebhard Sengmüller. Permission to publish is contingent upon proper published attribution to "A Parallel Image" and the subsequent receipt by Gebhard Sengmüller of a copy of the published material.
In the case of special requests or problems, please e-mail us at gebseng@gebseng.com