Four walls of a space are "painted" with video projectors into a single photo-realistic 360??q landscape representing a public garden. The space, set in Montréal's Mont-Royal Parc, is visited by real and virtual characters. Although the virtual characters appear free to come and go in the garden, real visitors will need help if they wish to walk in and explore it. To do this they have to make contact with one of the virtual characters by selecting, using voice or touch, questions or comments from imposed sets. Questions, for example, about where they are, what else is around, and where they can go will engage them in a conversation leading to some form of relationship. The exchange may be cut short with everyone going back to their business or it may reach a point where visitors will convince a character to lead them somewhere. In this case, visitors are pulled through the landscape after their virtual guide and the whole room appears to move in one direction.

The dialogue between the guide and the visitor or group continues and defines the progression through the space. Because real visitors are using virtual characters to steer their way through the space, the nature of the visitor's relationship to the character will define the space--physical or metaphorical--that can be accessed. There are several possible destinations or outcomes. Visitors may simply be abandoned somewhere along the way if the connection to the character they have chosen is broken, or they may reach a destination: a lookout or forbidden boundary.

This journey through space is also a journey through words, meanings, language, and subjectivity. It highlights not only the physical world in which the encounter happens but also the diversity of its meaning and function according to the different visitors. The experience is about communication/discommunication between people with movements through space representing manifestation of its nature; successful forms of communication will offer visitors varied inroads into more remote places.

<<Landscape One>> is a multi-user interactive panoramic video installation using 5 networked computers with touch pads, microphones, motion detectors, 4 video projectors and 4 laserdisc players.