Daniel Keller

FILTER: DATA AND SURVEILLANCE

Daniel Keller hired a group of unemployed people whom he asked to watch a half hour video compilation of tourism commercials. With a ‘gaze tracker’ he recorded their eye movements in order to measure where their eyes went and for how long. Eye tracking is a marketing method used to study the effectiveness of advertising. It allows you to see what a person is looking at, what distracts and what has gone unnoticed. It offers specific insights into the unconscious influence of advertising.

Keller does not use the data obtained for a specific research purpose. He converted the glances of the participants into a game of light and shadow on the video itself. He projects the video on a LED curtain, the type that is also used for interactive commercials and shows. This makes the system both a projection of a ‘consumption image’ and as a projection of consumer longings.

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