World Wide Chocolate Heart 
Part 1 Helsinki-Bryssel 2000. Part 2 / Helsinki-Malmö 2002



The aim of the WWCH project is to create a culinary pleasure link between different countries and cities. In spring 2002 a connection was made between Galleri21 in Malmö and Lume gallery in Helsinki.
The audience in Helsinki could take web cam-snapshots of themselves through a specially designed computer interface and send the picture to Malmö to be printed by a food colour printer on a white chocolate heart and eaten! Or the other way around. The eating session in the other city could be followed on a video screen through a real time video connection.

To enlarge the communicative experience Andersson created two identical ceremony tables for the project. They also function as sculptures with exchangeable prints for table surface and a built in sounds cape, combining sounds of chocolate licking with sounds from the sea, by sound artist Shawn Decker from Chicago Art Institute.

The first version of the WWCH-project connected Lasipalatsi in Helsinki with Brussels as a part of the IMAW multimedia exhibition 2000. This is the second WWCH project and hopefully there are more to come!
To get more information about the projects and to look at pictures and messages from the printing sessions, visit the WWCH website at www.imal.org/wwch.

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