The Tunnel under the Atlantic (1995)
The first VR installation to cross continents and real-time video used in a virtual reality environment.
This is a tele-virtual project linking the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal. Visitors are invited to dig through blocks of layered images taken from the cultural history, creating a digging route of a unique experience made up of sounds and pictures amidst a three dimensional tunnel. While digging, the visitors can talk with their partners across the Atlantic Ocean. The sounds of their voices are anchored in space and they enable everyone to find out the directions where to meet the other. It took the first group six days to built and pave the symbolic space before the de visual meeting of the two-continent diggers.
World Skin (1997):
A virtual reality interactive 3D installation that discusses the relationship between war and media.
Co-created with Jean-Baptiste Barrière, World Skin is a Photo Safari in the Land of War, where visitors are placed in an immersive installation and armed with a camera.By operating photo cameras that are suspended from the ceiling, visitors take pictures of the war scenes and experience how the camera becomes a ‘weapon’ that enables them to wipe out the projected images. It is awarded with the Golden Nica, Ars Electronica 1998. The work prompts us to think about the status of the image and the relationship between war and media. As well as what it is that the photographers appropriate when they press the button.
Emotion in Space (2014):
An interactive Internet-based installation playing with data streams, attempting to capture the emotional state of different cities.
Hundreds of thousands of data are collected from 3200 of the largest cities around the globe through the web on a daily basis. These help build maps of the world’s emotions updated every 30 minutes. The resulting emotion streams leave the earth, carried by the winds of the world. Visitors play the emotion streams like the strings of a musical instrument. Their fingertips, tracked by Leapmotion sensors, contribute to revealing the nuances of these emotions. As we move our fingertips towards each city-source, the sound becomes a crowd, distinguishing the temporal emotional state of different cities.
Open Sky Project (2014):
An example of Urban Media Art, showcasing works created by artists and students in Hong Kong City University.
Curated by Maurice Benayoun, Open Sky Project, allowing artists (Open Sky Gallery), and students (Open Sky Campus) to conceive and present works for one of largest screen in the world, the ICC media façade (70 000m2). This program offered more than 100 artists and students, the opportunity to exhibit their work in the public space. The ICC media façade represent about half the surface of the Hong Skyline video displays.