"You have to see it to believe it," laughs Luc Courchesne, creator of the "Panascope," something he describes as a "single channel panoramic projection device." It's like surround-sight or wrap-around cinema or... something. "Instead of having to use several cameras, the apparatus I created compresses the images while recording and then they're stretched when projected." The Panascope is one of the interactive installations now on display in the windows or on the street in front of the SAT (Technological Art Society), part of the Vitrine transdisciplinaire.
"It's an assembly of all the projects that were accomplished with the SAT's help in the last year," explains Courchesne who happens to be the president. "It's a laboratory which has a mandate to do transdisciplinary research on the impact of information technology on culture."
Witness fridges transmitting sounds onto the street (mmebutterfly.com's "Coldspot") or make a littler noise into [The User]'s real-time conduit to the Silophone in the Old Port and listen to your live echo. Dig it until Oct. 22, at 305 Ste-Catherine W., 12-9 p.m., $5. :
"You have to see it to believe it," laughs Luc Courchesne, creator of the "Panascope," something he describes as a "single channel panoramic projection device." It's like surround-sight or wrap-around cinema or... something. "Instead of having to use several cameras, the apparatus I created compresses the images while recording and then they're stretched when projected." The Panascope is one of the interactive installations now on display in the windows or on the street in front of the SAT (Technological Art Society), part of the Vitrine transdisciplinaire.