The social, scenic or politic particular contexts involved in each device are as much different as relationships to expression. They propose to experience and observe how the environment affects participation.
Immersive installation
The visitor walks down a corridor overlooking a circular room in which are projected words and sounds around him. A computer terminal provides access to the contribution interface. As soon texts or sounds are sent, they are returned immediately in front of the terminal. The installation invites an intimate experience common to both a visual projection and immersive sound. It questions the loneliness of everyone in his social shyness, and requires thinking and courage. It is a kind of confined space, prompting the withdrawal to better express themselves.
Projection
This system intepellate the public in investing public space, a public place, architecture footprinting its historical, social, cultural, human. Contributions are made through one or more terminals of contribution or by SMS.
Internet
This device is accessible through a website. It promotes international and permanent participation to the artwork. The relationship is intimate, personal and anonymous ... The participant decides for himself the time, place and time he puts his contribution on.
Screensaver
This system borrows the operation of the screen saver on your computer. Thus, “Reflet” only displayed through inaction ! It is putting attention to the continue evolution of the collective artwork. It underlines the time of inaction as a possible moment of contemplation, observation and reflection.
Each area of expression highlights the problems and constraints related to its nature and its management. Taking the example of the web context, it will lead to a relationship (and then a participation) to the artwork different from the one experienced in an urban projection. Intimate and anonymous for the first one, public for the other. “Reflet” has also in itself, not without paradoxes, all the ambitions, utopias ?, hoping of the computer technologies. And, ultimately, it will propose to experiment with new forms of co-management an area of expression.