DVD captures people's interest and its accessibility and easy interactivity makes everyone want to work with the system themselves. As more and more creative artists adopt the DVD platform, i-art has launched a new control method, which has been introduced in two new works featuring Philips professional DVD players. One new art project, by Simon Weber, was carried out with the Lucerne school of information and art, working with the Zugerland public transport service. 8 buses now display moving pictures on fixed monitors every time a passenger presses the 'stop' button. Each press triggers a new video sequence.
Software ensures the sequence constantly varies.
This allows the artists to reach a wider audience than they might otherwise. Another work is 'Constellations', an interactive installation by Edith Fl ckiger and Hildegard Spielhofer, which can be found at the east Basel Railway station. In the entrance hall, an LCD Flat screen monitor has been installed beneath ground level, and covered with a transparent glass plate. Walking across this, the visitor sees an ever-changing pattern of coloured balls against a blue background, accompanied by a metallic sound. The balls are triggered by guests entering the building and passing a motion detector.