reconFiguring the CAVE (1997/2001)
《洞穴推手》(1997/2001)

Agnes Hegedus, Bernd Lintermann, Jeffrey Shaw with Leslie Stuck
reconFiguring the CAVE is a computer based interactive video installation that creates a paradigmatic conjunction of body and space via 3D contiguous projections on one vertical screen and on the floor on which the viewers stand. The user interface represents a wooden puppet, a prosaic artists' mannequin that is manipulated by the viewers to control real time transformations of both the computer generated imagery and the sound composition. reconfiguring the CAVE presents relationships between corporeal and spatial co-ordinates that are both physical and conceptual, reflecting those cultural and scientific traditions that conjecture the body as the locus and measure of all things. At the same time it shifts that worldview into a post-modern exigency that reveals the fragile covariance of surrogate mediated bodies that are located in a measureless space of virtual forms.

Commissioned in 1997 by the NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan. Produced at the ZKM Institute of Visual Media, Karlsruhe. Revised in 2001 for the Louisiana Museum.
《洞穴推手》為一電腦為本的互動錄像裝置；立體投射於直立及觀眾腳下的地上連接屏幕，創作出身體與空間連結的典範。它的控制介面是一具代表著藝術家的木偶，觀眾利用它實時改變電腦影像及聲音內容。本作品透過反映身體在文化及科學傳統的中心性及萬物歸依本質，呈現身體與空間在實質及概念上的相互關係。同時，它亦借無生命的替身在無垠的虛擬狀態下的脆弱共變數，表達其帶後現代危機的世界觀。