©Boris PETROVSKY
Photo: Nina MARTENS (stereomorph.net)

16th Art Division Jury Selections

The Army of Luck, or: The Global Pursuit of Happiness

Interactive art

Boris PETROVSKY [Germany]

Outline

The “Lucky Cats’ Matrix” contains 520 shiny golden XXL Lucky Cats, made of plastic, which are arranged on a ramp-like stand made of aluminum. They can perform spontaneously with salutatory and signalizing gestures as well as mass movements. Visitors can input sentences which are displayed with the paws letter by letter as a sliding text marquee like “inscriptions.