Meta Filter
1973-1975
Installation
Materials: painted wood, perspex, computer, slide projector and problem book
Collection: Collection Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon.
Meta Filter (1973–75) is an interactive learning system allowing two people, who may or may not know each other, to build an intangible model of society – a model society – through mutual agreement. Seated on opposite sides of a console that can be installed in any public venue, both operators encounter the same sequence of problems. These are formulated in the Problem Book and visualised in sixty slides of a group of eight people reflecting five kinds of group behaviour: ‘reference’, ‘social provision’, ‘survival’, ‘projectional’ and ‘institutional’. The problems are organised into twelve areas of increasing complexity; in addition, each problem is accompanied by statements from two different reference groups who were consulted during the construction of the work.
