Driving through tunnels in Virtual Reality?s World. Constanze Ruhm´s "Heaven" is not a site and, as it is expected of heaven, can not be located topographically: "heaven" is more like a text, a mental voyage through artificial bodies. Ruhm constructs connected female bodies and, in this way, creates a room and projects different "exterior recordings" of a girl onto this computer-generated infinity.

The movement of a virtual camera through the interior view of a familiar architecture, functions as an independently controlled mini-camera on its way through the nervous system, searching for axioms and aminoacids; or as a view from a driving car, where only one thing remains clear during a fantastic drive through a fictional landscape: uncertainty.
Ruhm renounces the use of background music in her videos. The quasi permanently renewed body sucks in gazes absolutely, the stillness functions as a catalyst. (Suess)

Exhibitions

Balance.akte 96, 1996

Kunsthalle Krems, Krems-Stein (NÖ), Austria

Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum, St.Pölten (NÖ), Austria

sincerely yours, 1998

Sofia Municipal Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

TED Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria

Specifications

3min 18sec no sound color PAL

Technical protocol

Silicon Graphics (computer animation); Avid Media Composer (postproduction); Beta SP (master)

Post production

Universität für angewandte Kunst, Wien (vormals Hochschule)

Sponsorship

Hochschule für angewandte Kunst: Meisterklasse für visuelle Mediengestaltung.

Edition

Sammlung Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum

Copyright

Constanze Ruhm

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