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The Hidden Message

In winter 2014, Tim Schmelzer presented a message in the form of a Morse code alphabet at the Leopold Museum in Vienna. The message only reaches the viewer after the Morse code has been broken. The message was subliminally depicted as a negation with black punctuation on the façade. To achieve this effect, Tim Schmelzer uses an illusion by illuminating the entire Leopold Museum with the projection light and interrupting only a fraction of the projection light for the information. This process reverses the laws of light projection. As a result, the building does not appear to the viewer as a projection object and the black Morse code is perceived as an analogue marking on the natural white façade.
These signs are thus hidden from view and only arouse the viewer's interest when they ask about their meaning. In order to find out the meaning, the viewer must step out of their usual passive viewing habits and actively discover the meaning for themselves. The message surprises, baffles or fades into insignificance, depending on how the viewer perceives it.