A Plaything for the Great Observer at Rest

This installation won the 2008 Linz Prix Ars Electronica for interactive art. Inspired by the 19th-century tradition of mechanical models of solar systems, it proposes a simplified model of the solar system consisting of Sun and Earth only. The public can interact with the model, changing the speed of rotation and revolution of our planet as well as varying the inclination of the axis of revolution. It can also change its point of view by going from a heliocentric model to a geocentric one, and vice-versa. The artist describes it as “a kind of privileged power that the unmoving observer, using only a paper and a pen, a telescope, and his own imagination, can be able to reach.”

Norimichi Hirakawa was born in Japan in 1982 and graduated from the Information Design Department of Tama Art University.

Fondazione Giorgio Cini – Padiglione dele Capriate
23/27 September

From 10 am to 6 pm

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