Art Confessional
Installation view at Arc/Raw Space
6 W. Hubbard St., Chicago
September 10- October 2, 1982
First exhibition Group Red (with Royce Weatherly)
Exhibition was (among?) the first to utilize a personal computer (Commodor 64 with tape drive).
Gallery viewers were seated in an "art confessional" and asked
a series of prepared questions on the nature of art, its role and purpose in society by a person(s) seated at the computer station. Their answers were recorded as data, and later tabulated and distributed. While inside the Confessional the participants "secret" answers were broadcast by speaker system to the basement space, and the upstairs gallery.
Installation view at Arc/Raw Space
6 W. Hubbard St., Chicago
September 10- October 2, 1982
First exhibition Group Red (with Royce Weatherly)
Exhibition was (among?) the first to utilize a personal computer (Commodor 64 with tape drive).
Gallery viewers were seated in an "art confessional" and asked
a series of prepared questions on the nature of art, its role and purpose in society by a person(s) seated at the computer station. Their answers were recorded as data, and later tabulated and distributed. While inside the Confessional the participants "secret" answers were broadcast by speaker system to the basement space, and the upstairs gallery.
Art Confessional
Commodor 64 computer station in forefround
"Art Confessional" in background
Art Confessional
Detail ( note computer tape drive is locked in desk drawer in center of photo ).
Royce Weatherly and Peter Hopkins at Art Confessional opening 1982
Art Confessional
Wood, glass, canvas, chair, speaker system
@80" x 46" x 42"
Art Confessional (Detail)
Art Confessional (Detail)