One perceives an endless text dynamically fluttering on miniature black monitor. The downward flow of text from top to bottom of the screen is interrupted continually by a lateral left-right movement, resulting in an instability, and a degree of illegibility

The text is derived from textual fragments which have been collected from the card catalog of the Jewish Museum Archive in Berlin. The archive contains objects which have been donated to the Collection before the current location. The texts describe the condition of the donated objects and documents.


The work has been displayed in two forms on two occasions:

Galerie Anselm Dreher, 2003: Three miniature TFT displays hung on a wall in a dark room.

Jewish Museum Frankfurt, 2005: The work is situated in the section of the Museum in the Judengasse in Frankfurt, where an archaeological site may be entered. The monitor is positioned inside a deep brick well, and is only viewable from a specific standpoint near the entrance.

Source materials: Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz, Berlin. Image generated on a motorized microfilm machine.

Monochrome rear projection on black plexiglass of microfilmed archival documents, lateral endless movement from left to right. The documents, which are the results of interrogations with German soldiers at the end of World War II, are only vaguely readable in the installation.

First presented as part of "From the Archives", solo exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, 1999.

Documentation of an abandoned Salt Mine in Colorado with storage space equivalent to 43 football fields, the dedication of the first documented Time Capsule, and a robotic mass storage system.

First presented at the Arken Museum of Modern Art as part of the interactive performance-installation, "Memory Arena" in 1996.

A robotic mass storage system in which files are ordered and physically moved by a robotic monk/librarian. The machine periodically self-destructs.

First presented as part of the solo exhibition: "T: from the Great and Small Archive", Galerie Ozwei, Berlin, 1992

Biographical Data culled from the "Who's Who in Central & East Europe 1933" database.

A field of computer data is endlessly scrolling in fast forward, details are only partially readable, as the speed accelerates. Filmed off a bernstein monochrome monitor.

Uranus, 1974
Videotape, 1/2 inch, 13 min., Loop
Sammlung / Collection of the Donnell Library, New York; Anthology Film Archives, New York The Vasulkas Archive, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Stroboscopic Feedback, Black & White. Fast speed generates perception of color.

Decay, Oscillations, 1975
Videotape, 1/2 inch, 22 min.
Collection of the Donnell Library, New York; Anthology Film Archives, New York, The Vasulkas Archive, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Stroboscopic Color Oscillations

Lapse, 1976
Videotape, 1/2 inch, 16 min., Loop
Collection of the Donnell Library, New York; Anthology Film Archives, New York; The Vasulkas Archive, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Stroboscopic Color Interference Patters

Animation of 1000 multi-armed Tibetan Figures composed by Loan-Ska at the time of the Emperor Ch'ien Lung (1736-1796 A. D.)

Audio produced at the Electronic Music Studio at S.U.N.Y. Albany, New York. Audiotape lost.