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Influenced by Heinrich von Kleist's 1801 essay "The Marionette
Theater," this work projects the image of a wooden marionette
onto a panel of three screens. Visitors can freely manipulate the
marionette with wires suspended over a cylinder that has been placed
in the center of the exhibition gallery. In manipulating the marionette,
however, visitors will gradually come to realize that it is themselves
who are being manipulated. This relationship reflects the state of
human-computer interaction; like an asymptote, it demonstrates a relationship
which moves infinitely closer, but never comes to a point of contact.
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