The Fotobot connected the public space with the digital network and could be installed behind any shop window. The device consisted of a monitor, a camera and an infrared trigger. It was mounted behind shop windows using suction cups. 35 Fotobots for the Expo.02 project Cyberhelvetia.ch took over a million portraits over a period of 1 1/2 years. The Fotobots were mounted in 57 shop windows throughout Switzerland and during Expo.02 in the Cyberhelvetia.ch exhibition and on all the Arteplages. The visitors (In.Cyders) were portrayed and their picture sent to Cyberhelvetia.ch in the form of an electronic postcard.
Locations
57 shop windows throughout Switzerland
Arteplage Biel-Bienne - Exhibition Cyberhelvetia.ch
Arteplage Biel-Bienne
Arteplage Murten-Morat
Arteplage Neuchâtel
Arteplage Yverdon-les-Bains
Partner
Crédit Suisse, Zurich www.credit-suisse.com
Winterthur Versicherungen, Winterthur
Sun Microsystems (Schweiz) AG, Volketswil
Sunrise Communications AG, Zurich www.sunrise.ch
Project idea
Belleville AG, Zurich www.belleville.ch
Concept
Belleville AG (Christian Rintelen). Zurich www.belleville.ch
3deluxe, Wiesbaden, Germany www.3deluxe.de
Project team Belleville AG
Martin Roth, Andreas Kohli, Andreas Hofer, Felix Schaad, Susanne Hofer
Support Credit Suisse Group
Ulrich Pfister (project responsibility)
Pius Knüsel (content)
Mira Song (guests & personnel)
Coaching Expo.02
Pidu Russek (head)
Jacqueline Rondelli-Leist
Photos: © Belleville AG, Zürich www.belleville.ch
