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Two-Rooms Problem: Interrogation Room

Updated: 7/28/2024

Multi-Device Web Artwork: One of possibility: Inter-Rooms/Inter-spatial layout
Where interconnected devices span and communicate across the space, inter-the-space, beyond-the-space
Physically disconnected rooms → How to create a narrative which spans across different rooms?
Or even different country? Spanning across the world?
Nam June Paik: Good Morning Mr.Orwell
How to implicitly signify that different spaces are communicating in real-time?

A good place to start: Interrogation room
An asymmetrical setting where being seen - the act of watching is divided. One room is a subject (being seen), and another room is an active place of gazing (the act of seeing/controlling).
Interrogation room: One-way glass makes one room to be subjective to another / controlled by another. Room A (노출되는), Room B (조절하는), Room A (을), Room B (갑).
Such an interesting structure that human had made, 위계적 구조를 여과 없이 들어내는, 갑-을의 구조, 힘에의 의지가 작동하는 방향성이 단방향으로 정해진 형태.
Appliance to MDWA Installation Settings:
The audience first enter Room A (Incognito for the whole structure) and is placed in the middle of the digitally augmented space
Contents shown here are actually being controlled by Room B, and audiences are expected to suspect this in some extent
Audience later enter Room B and recognise what was happening at Room A
It might worth checking Lacan’s theory on gazing → Point of Light - Screen - Subject


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