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Walking to Nyonin-do, you will find a binocular which is set in the middle of the path. Getting near the binocular, you will hear a whisper. "What are you doing?" |
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Looking around the neighborhood, you will find no one. Looking into the binocular, you will see yourself from behind. Some whispers overlap the image. "What are you looking at?" ........... "What is seen?" .......... "...how...What is seen?" .......... "You are watched." |
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When a person gets near the binocular about 2m, an infrared sensor catchs the action and the whisper "What are you doing?" begins to play. Getting near the binocular more about 30cm to look into it, another infrared sensor catchs the action and the series of whispers "What are you looking at? ............. You are watched." begin to play. Two video monitors (0.7inches TFT LCD) and two speakers are put into the binocular. Two kinds of infrared sensors are put into the metal box installed under the binocular. The main system to control the sounds is put into the metal box installed at the foot of the prop for the binocular. The whispes are wrote on ROM and the sound system is controlled by a microcomputer. |
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Two video cameras are put into this pole. This pole is installed at the entrance of the slope.
The pole is designed to seem to be amost a buffer. |
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LEFT : Two video cmeras put into the pole
RIGHT : The audience can see himself / herself stereoscopically from behind. |
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2000 Kyoto Arts Festival
"Creating Kyoto / 10th Public Competition, Director / Judge: Motoaki Sinohara 261 projects were applied for the competition and 8 projects were selected. Selected Artists: Yoichi UMEKI, Shinji OHMAKI, Haruki TAKANO and NOYAMA Ironworks, Atsushi SHIKATA, Shoji IKUMA and Kyoko TAKAGI, Marc Peter KEANE, Yasuhiro IMAE, Yoshiomi YAMAGUCHI |
