Defence in Context

On the lookout for depictions of safety, I discovered a German advertising “magazine” from 2007. It reads as if it was written by Microsoft himself to promote Windows Vista. It is called “Vista Komplett” and for me it was already worth buying, only because of the beautiful glossy double pages of Vista’s wallpapers—but I also discovered something else: on page 64 I was surprised to see my series of big aluminum shields “Defence, Pt. 1” already realized by Microsoft quite similarly back then!

A picture in the magazine’s security section shows a user in intimate togetherness with her laptop. To indicate that both are well protected, an eager intellectual worker from the big company placed one of Vista’s shield icons on top of them.

On the picture above you can see the upper part of the article about Windows’ new security “feature” Windows Defender and on the picture below you can see “Defecse” in all its glory at “Universam Art Market” in Moscow in 2009. The proportions are very similar. One might question the gallery as white cube, and yet for Interface Art it is still a nice place to derive meaning from the shift to that context. (Image: ?????? ??????)