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The event took place in two adjacent rooms. In the first Shusaku gave a Buto performance on the edge of a raised circular steel construction within which the image of a black bull was painted on the white floor. A video camera pointed at this

Points of View II - Babel addressed issues relating to the Falklands War. It was made using the same functional and iconographic structures as Points of View I, but with a differing content.In BABEL hieroglyphs were used to articulate a

A computer-programmed lighting installation articulated the neo-classical features of the Felix Meritis building. Transparent acoustic panels allowed the public to listen to music emanating from the walls of the building.

Circular-patterned digitizing of the viewers' movements was conjoined with the static recording of a large souvenir reproduction of the Eiffel Tower. The work uses the same image processing software originally developed for Video Narcissus

The Legible City was first presented in 1988 as wire-frame graphics that were interactively operated by a joystick. This constituted a prototype for later implementations of this work using a bicycle as the viewer interface and more advanced

A large steel ball hangs from four cables and motorized pulleys within the atrium of this building. Connected to the center's computer network, anyone working there can interactively program its movement paths.

Faced with the occasion to show Points of View 16 years after its creation, it became clear that the restitution of the original hardware and software would be much more difficult than simply reconstructing and reprogramming the complete work on a

An augmented reality apparatus allowed the visitors, when looking through its optical window, to see a rotating computer-generated wire frame cube positioned in the real space of the museum. Further developement of this technology allowed stereo-

Interview

Jeffrey Shaw. Agnes Hegedues and Bernd Lintermann, 1996