The work "Touch me" of Alba D'Urbano from 1995 is an interactive digital video installation where a monitor with touch screen, a video camera and a computer are mounted on a platform. The monitor with the touch screen is visible for the visitors at eyelevel and it is integrated in a wooden column. So visitors can observe the pictures of a video portrait of the artist, which are shown on the monitor and can change these images through touching the monitor. The camera takes shots of the visitors while they are looking at the video on the monitor. If the visitor touches some parts of the face on the monitor, these parts dissolve and inside the portrait, the face of the observer will become partly or fully visible (see http://www.durbano.de/touchme/index.html). An artist-portrait is being used here as a motif to bring the visitor to touch the screen (the work is called ?touch me?) and so to activate a process, which is not recognizable at first.
(Penesta Dika)