40 picture panels in the lobby of the Schwetzingen Savings Bank, 1998. Objects made of electrically manipulated, sand-blasted glass in steel frames,
364 cm x 836 cm

The digital network is this building's artery. Through it information is sent and becomes readable on the screen's face. The INFORMATION WINDOW - an installation of 40 screens mounted in front of the large glass facade of the lobby - shows this information poetically transfigured...  

Signs are recognizable on the sand-blasted glass. Ones that are familiar to us because we see them everyday on our screens are combined with archaic characters - Numidian, Egyptian and Chinese - symbols that are still understandable today.

There are many possibilities to read and interpret the signs shown here. But decipher them completely you cannot. Similar to a computer screen, these picture planes are in motion. Except for the fact that digital flickering is distorted down to slow-motion speed.

The glass used here can be made transparent or opaque by means of electrical current. This makes possible a game of changing views: the view onto the information signs and the view through the signs onto the reality that lies behind each piece of data.