The COFA Annual 2013

As the soothsayer with his crystal ball moved to the Internet long ago, the palm reader migrated from his tent into an application for smartphones. Basing their prophecies on a photograph of a palm, the competing programs can, courtesy of occult algorithms, automatically make assessments about your future life as well as your chequered past. On large-format prints these evaluations were disposed by Elke Reinhuber along the appropriate lines of the hand. This piece explores whether our life is predetermined, or if we have it in our own hands, what could happen with us. Should that be the case, making significant decisions would mean also leaving visible marks on our palms. With thanks to Frederik Busch for his kind support

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