Technique: interactive video installation, DVD PAL 4:3
Dimensions: w: 10m, h: 5m, l: 10m
Equipment: 3 video beamers, 3 projection screens (160x300cm) 3 DVD players, slot machine, audio amplifier

»cash drive« shows, with the use of three video beamers on an oversized screen, a projected film sequence of the artist (himself) unsuccessfully, alone through physical strength, attempting to push a gold luxury limousine forwards. Not until the observer throws the symbolic price of one Euro into the paying apparatus of the installation, does he succeed in moving the voluminous automobile from the spot. It doesn't take long though for the car to yet again stall, and the artist is forced to hope for another payment.

»Standing Ovations«, 2001

Technique: interactive video installation
Dimensions: w: 3,20m, l: 11m, h: 2,40 m
Equipment: video beamer, PC, rear projection screen (3,20m X 2,40m), 15 ground sensors, carpet (red) 3,20mX6m, audio amplifier

Jakub Moravek's final project at the Academy of art in Munich - »standing ovation«, is an entertaining study of man's need to be the centre of attention. Whoever wants to, can also see in it the 'Warholian' adage of fame for everyone for 15 minutes. A wall-filling projected film sequence simulates scenes out of TV shows. It shows several rows of sitting and standing people who look at the observer from the screen. They appear to be studying the observer concentratedly, however remain still, almost motionless. Only when an installation visitor moves towards the projection wall, are sensors triggered, that in turn cause the crowd slowly to move. If the visitor reduces the distance again little by little, they start to look friendlier, a few applaud. If the visitor finally stands directly in front of the projection, the scene escalates to an ecstatic applause. Should he leave the red carpet again, the applauding wanes. These scenes can be played in any order whatsoever as the film has no linear plot.

»Station«, 2000

Technique: video installation
Dimensions: w: 20m, h: 4m
Equipment: 6 video beamers, 6 Beta-cam players, 6 projection screens, computer

»station« is a piece of work for the outdoors. The idea to take the nearest underground station in it's original size and project it in the six arcadian style windows on the ground floor of the literature house, developed directly from the given architectural. A 30 minute film was created without cuts or camera pans. It shows the platform of the underground, giving an account of waiting people, the arrival and departure of the tube and people getting on and off. Following from this, there is an announcement, waiting people alight the tube, doors close, and the tube drives off. Again the platform, waiting people.... The usual interpretations of area specifics follow either formal aesthetic or social political criteria. Station combines the change of everyday rooms through art, thus the aestheticizing of everyday life, with the amazing effect of a translocation. Then although for the passenger in the station, the coming and going of the tube is nothing more than a normal everyday situation, the new surroundings change the familiar scene into a produced spectacle.