„Detection II” (2010)

Worshippers entering and leaving Cathedral were monitored with a thermographic camera.
Thermographic technology enables registration and imaging of changes in infrared radiation emitted by physical bodies.

The DETECTION project addressed the ever increasing lack of privacy, in a subversive way depicting the gap between the sacred and the profane.
In 2010, "Detection" project was implemented in Lublin (during Open City festival).
The video was projected on the Cathedral facade.

Thanks to Techmadex Sp. z o.o

Biography

Roch Forowicz was born in 1978 in Warsaw, Poland. In 2005, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Studio of Multimedia Artistic Creation at the Faculty of Graphic Arts. Since 2007, he has been working as an assistant at the Inter-University Studio of Multimedia Artistic Creation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Organising Upgrade!Warsaw since 2007. Curator and co-founder of 2.0 gallery in Warsaw. Participant of many expositions and festivals, such as FILE festival (BR), HAIP Festival (SI), Liwoli09 (AT), Paraflows 09 (AT), Urban Research (DE), Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej - Zamek Ujazdowski (PL), Komuna Otwock, Entropia, STUDIO, WEF, Krytyka Polityczna etc.

Through his artistic activity, Roch Forowicz refers to the ‘city surveillance’ culture – constant supervision by means of CCTV and data processing and filing software and devices.His activity is radical, often characterised by illegal ‘hacktivist’ interventions, consisting in intercepting and using technological devices against their creators’ will.