BORDERLINE
Interactive game installation
Laurus Edelbacher
2021

The work Borderline is centered around the topic of national borders fortified with diverse barriers and surveillance systems, which are intended to make their crossing more difficult when not impossible. Via a virtual array of surveillance monitors, six screens display selected sections of such border zones around the world. Using reference images from the internet, these real border zones are reconstructed as interactive 3D environments in a game engine. Users can manually control the individual surveillance cameras with the camera interface and explore the 3D environments. They can also expose set trigger points in the different border zones with a cross-hair pointer and thereby deconstruct the surveillance system and make the individual surveillance cameras crash.

Exhibitions

Borderline

2022
Connection Unstable – Angewandte Festival, OKP, Vienna, Austria
Trauma Trauma – Fabrikraum, Johnstraße 25–27, Vienna, Austria