Photoboothautograph, 38 two-image-videoloops, 38 monitors and projectors (installation: Künstlerhaus Passagengalerie, solo show curated by Ursula Maria Probst, Vienna, 2009)

Invented 1865 by Felicitas Zopp, the innovative technology and astonishing capability of the Photoboothautograph were quickly recognised. A patent was granted the same year. For a short period in 1866 a Photoboothautograph was installed as an attraction in the famous Vienna Prater fair grounds. But shortly afterward the technology was declared a state secret and thus fell into oblivion.
Recently, the Photoboothautograph and its unique potential for replication, repetition and self-fragmentation was rediscovered in the Austrian State Archive and updated using latest digital technology.
From 20 March until 12 April the prototype tested by Marlene Haring was presented to the public at Passagegalerie, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria.