A capsule-like unit, in the general shape of a head (top of the
head, ears). The capsule can be placed in any room, where it can
be used as furniture.
The basic head-shape is 8 feet high, 12 feet long, and 3 feet
deep, with a half-head adjunct adding 3 feet of depth on each
face, opposite ends.
Cut into the faces of the capsule are enclosures in the shape
of human figure, in seated positions. The enclosures provide seats
for people: a person can fit himself/ herself inside a seated
cut-out figure. In the central head-shape, there are two seats
(two figures) facing each other, but blocked off from each other
and entered from opposite sides. (The cut-outs might be joined
at the feet, so the toes of one person. -- sitting inside the
figure on one side -- might be touching the toes of the person
who has entered the figure from the other side. ) In each of the
half-head adjuncts, a seat (a figure) faces outward.
On one face of the capsule, the exterior surfaces are shiny white
(possibly frosted white Plexiglas); inside the enclosures, the
seats and seat-backs are shiny black (again, some black plastic).
On the opposite face of the capsule, those surfaces are reversed,
black outside and white inside. In each frontal enclosure, facing
out, the sides and top are mirrored; in each side-profile enclosure,
facing the other, the- front and side and top are mirrored.
Inside each enclosure, television equipment is embedded within
the mirrored walls. Inside one frontal enclosure, there's a video
monitor at one side of the head, a video camera at-the other side,
and a TV set overhead; inside the other frontal enclosure, there's
a video camera at one side of the head, a TV set at the other
side, and a video monitor overhead. Inside one" side-profile
enclosure, there's a video monitor at the side of the head, a
TV set overhead, and a video camera in front; inside the other
side-profile enclosure, there's a TV set at the side of the head,
a video camera overhead, and a video monitor in front.
Sitting on the seat, in any one of the enclosures, activates
a mechanism that turns on the TV set (regular programming, image
and sound) in one of the other enclosures. When a person sits
inside one enclosure, the image of that person (either the top
of the head, or the side of the face, or the front of the face),
as well as the voice (if he/she chooses to speak), is transferred
by means of the video camera onto a video monitor in another enclosure.
Outside the capsule, along the edge on each side, there's a bench
between the ears. This seating area is, in effect, 'out of the
picture' (there's no video camera or monitor here) -- though the
interior surfaces of the ears might be mirrored, and there might
be a window-like cut-out at the back of each bench that opens
onto the back of the head of each figure in side-profile.
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