Artwork requirements:
Shockwave 10+ plug-in. Webcam.

About the artwork:
IDfone explores an ambivalent conjunction between the Freudian notion of the Id, I.D. systems (biometrics) and a video-phone gone wrong. Employing a digital mirror, reflecting imagery from two different locations, the artwork acts as a portal to somewhere/someone else. Visitors peer into 2 screens, located in different spaces, and are confronted with a blended and distorted 'portrait' of themselves and an unknown other.

About the artist:
Simon Biggs is an internationally renowned visual and inter-disciplinary artist. He uses the computer and interactive systems within large-scale installation, web-based artworks and other contexts to explore issues around identity and reality as social constructs. For further information, please visit: www.littlepig.org.uk.

With thanks to:
Art and Design Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University, UK [technology support]