The Visitor: Living by Numbers (by Luc Courchesne)

Interactive video panorama for computer with microphone and hemispheric projection system (Panoscope 360).

The Visitor: Living by Numbers is inspired by Pier-Paolo Pasolini's 1969 film Theorema and by a dream Courchesne's daughter had when she was 10 years old. In the installation, visitors are planted somewhere in the Japanese countryside. From there they will try to make a life for themselves by saying any number between one and twelve to indicate the direction they want to go or to show interest in people and what they have to say. Exploring the territory, happening upon and entering a shelter, meeting and dealing with the inhabitants and gaining status within the group will define a visitor's experience. Leaving the place and the inhabitants to themselves (as in Pasolini's film) or being forced to escape after an earthquake (as in his daughter's dream) will further characterize the visitor's experience.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• interaction
• immersion
• experience
• art
• design

[pigrandom]

Your exhibits/installations look amazing. I hope they come to Sydney one day... was the WTC controversy over your video a planned PR ploy? Seems like a more credible conspiracy theory to me... Haha :P