Mircea Cantor: Tracking Happiness

Tthe Kunsthaus Zurich presents the young Romanian artist Mircea Cantor, whose work addresses traces left and deleted by our age of computer communication and electronic surveillance.

With his videos, photos, objects and installations, Cantor puts the digital information society to the test in a remarkably lyrical artistic process, and offers the viewing public three new pieces.

In "Tracking Happiness" Mircea Cantor considers a society that stores ever more personal information.

To Cantor's own bemusement, however, despite this proliferation of digitalized data on every possible activity, the process does not leave enduring traces.

There is scarcely any traditional written record to remind future generations of the way we lived - nor is there likely to be, since e-mails, text messages, and entire digital databases are all at permanent risk of deletion at the touch of a button or rollout of a new IT system.