Interactive Sound Installation
Completely Dark Space
13 x 16m, 40 x 50 ft


This installation presents visitors with sounds of speeding cars travelling across a completely dark exhibition space. The illusion of traffic is created using various car sounds which are played through four pairs of stereo speakers placed at either end of four invisible lanes of traffic. If a visitor is in a lane when a car approaches, this car will screech to a halt. This stopped car will remain stationary with its engine idling, although traffic will continue in the other lanes. When a visitor leaves a lane containing a stopped car, this car will quickly accelerate and continue travelling across the space. If a visitor remains standing in a lane with a stopped car, however, subsequent cars travelling down that lane will smash into the stopped car. Like an actual freeway, safe areas exist between each lane where a visitor may stand without affecting the flow of traffic. An unlimited number of visitors can be accommodated at one time.









"INTERSECTION creates a space which pivots the viewer between sensations of empathy and tension, presenting an environment that is a metaphor for both modern life and its accompanying anxieties."
(Bruce Johnson, Sound Symposium)


Exhibitions of Intersection

    ARS ELECTRONICA, Linz, Austria. 1996
    SONAMBIENTE SOUND FESTIVAL, Berlin, Germany. 1996
    IMAGES du FUTUR, Montreal. 1995
    SOUND SYMPOSIUM, St. John's, Newfoundland. 1994
    EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL, Osnabruck, Germany. 1993


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