‘Gating’, a visit of the industry.

‘Gating III’ is an interactive installation. It deals with the relationship between place and non-locality. An important topic of ‘Gating’, a visit of the industry is the drift of industry from Europe to Asia. Whole steelworks are being sold and shipped from one place to another.

‘Gating III’ offers three layers of information: one layer is the photorealistic surface, which carries specific information that is based on the module and its subject an industrial plant and the parts it is made from. These industrial modules are reassembled from different European facilities.

A second layer is made up of flow charts that overlay this photographic landscape as the user passes over it with the mouse. The writing tells the user where in the world the different parts of the plant were used and when.

The third layer includes text that runs as a belt along the lowest part of the screen. This text is user generated, it enables a dialog that is independent of place and social environment.