| In September 95, visitors
of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal and the Georges Pompidou
Center in Paris were digging a virtual tunnel towards each other
from the two cities. Two years later, this first segment of a worldwide
virtual tunnel is being extended with a new Paris/New-Delhi link.
The information highway is working to bring people and cultures
closer together through interactive innovation. |
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From each end of this virtual
tunnel, the general public will be able to dig into a mass made
up of images belonging to France and India's common past. The area
created by the visitors' movements will take form in real time.
During the digging, it will be possible to talk to one's counterpart
and, at times, see him or her as an image floating in the tunnel
space. Each visitor is filmed during the dig and an animated image
is beamed onto a surface occupying his or her place in the virtual
world. |
| For the tunnel under the
Atlantic, the meeting only occurred after a 5 days digging. But
for the Paris - New Delhi Tunnel the encounters will take
place all along the roads of India. Various intermediary locations
will be identified by suitable iconography. When two persons share
an interest in the same images or period, they will be able, should
they so desire, to meet. |
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Thank to the « Gadevu »,
an intelligent-like robot, the tunnel is an anticipation of research
software based not on statements, but on behaviors. It stands as
a new breed of meeting system, made possible by computer networks.
The meeting depends on the proximity of interests, rather than on
actual nearness. The beginning for semantic traveling. |
| Just like each visitor's
voice, the interactive score, composed by Jean-Baptiste Barrière
for this tunnel will serve as a compass leading to an encounter.
Spatialized sound allows diggers to localize each other in the opaque
space of images. The music guides us through the images towards
our counterpart. |
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The Paris-New Delhi Tunnel
by Maurice Benayoun
Music : Jean-Baptiste Barrière
Executive Production : Z-A
Coordination : Studio Cérézales
Coproduction : AFAA/ Cité des Sciences et de I'Industrie/ Z-A
Developing : David Nahon / Tristan Lorach /Z-A
Production With the participation of SGI |
