The Art of the Overhead 2005

The Art of the Overhead is an installation consisting of a growing collection of overhead slides submitted by artists, graphic designers, filmmakers, cartoonists, writers, et cetera. The people who submitted to the archive were either asked to contribute or simply answered to an open call. The archive is displayed in an interactive wall-mounted folder system. Each folder contains the work of one artist and the exhibition visitors can browse the archive by taking down the folders and projecting the overhead slides themselves. Christian Faubel’s Overheadbots on the other hand are completely autonomous; all their energy is delivered by the overhead. Like parasites they sit on top of the overhead and convert its light into their proper motion. The whole system is like a little ecosystem and works without any further intervention once the overhead is turned on.