A Central Axis
A central axis
Interactive installation
Year: 2003
Interactive installation where the user can experience the affluence and presence of people in the physical space(a public area in Valencia-Spain) and in the virtual social relation space (a chat in Internet).
A mobile platform located in the exhibition area of the Singapore art museum reacts in real time to the movements of people walking around a central square in the Spanish city of Valencia. In this way, visitors who get onto the platform in Singapore experience the movements of passers-by in Spain with a kind of swinging motion; the latter, meanwhile, are unaware that their actions have generated this reaction more than 10,000 kilometres away.
Meanwhile, the influx of visits to the IRC channel chosen at random generates textual information that is gathered and then projected by video onto a glass wall, creating an all-embracing environment in the entire room, especially in the space above the platform. Thus visitors standing on the platform can also interact with the floating texts, by getting in their way and making them change direction. In this way, the platform becomes a hybrid space from which, by means of the body's weight and movements, it is possible to interact with both the physical world and the virtual world, and experience various sensations associated with visual perception, haptic perception and balance.
In relation with the opening of Interrupt exhibition we did a presentation of our work at the Singapore Art Museum together with Adrian D. Cheok, Irina Aristarkhova and Lee Shang Ping.
