World Eye - The Way of the Stones

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World Eye - The Path of Stones is an intermedia art project initiated by the Frankfurt artist Volker Steinbacher and the web designer Gerald Wingertszahn .

Since the spring of 2003, stones painted with an eye made of ink have been deposited all over the world. The position of each stone and the environment is logged with text and images and made accessible on the Internet. The people taking part (mostly tourists, scientists, business people and development workers) determine the location of the stone deposit themselves. Anyone can take part as long as they are traveling to a country where there is still no stone. Each participant vouches with his name that he really put the stone in the specified place.

All stones come from the mountain village of Mirabel / Ardèche in the south of France . As a rule, the painting disappears after the first rain. The stone remains, but can no longer be identified.

The project aims to lay stones in all countries of the world, as well as in colonies, trust areas and territories with disputed status, as well as in international areas. This goal was achieved on December 10, 2010. The stones lie on seas, bridges and trees, monuments, places of human terror, ecological catastrophes and theaters of war. They are also found on holiday beaches, in restaurants and in the living room at home. Two stones are located in research stations in the Arctic and Antarctic ( Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research ). A stone traveled to the International Space Station in 2006 .

The project was ended in December 2011. All original documents are in the Institute for Urban History of the City of Frankfurt am Main , the six-volume digital documentation is available as an electronic resource at the German National Library.

World Eye - The way of the stones does not intend to show a balanced, representative picture of the world, but seeks the arbitrary and accidental excerpt from current events.

Publications

  • The path of stones , 2005, cultural office of the city of Neu-Isenburg
  • The Path of Stones , 2006, Darmstadt Art Archive

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