The Tunnel under the Atlantic

The Tunnel under the Atlantic (1995), Maurice Benayoun, Virtual Reality Interactive Installation

The Tunnel under the Atlantic is an interactive art installation by Maurice Benayoun. The visitors were invited to dig, inside memory, a virtual tunnel between Pompidou Centre in Paris and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal in 1995. More than a technical performance, as the first intercontinental virtual reality artwork (called "televirtuality", Philippe Quéau, 1994), this installation was one-of-a-kind example of what Maurice Benayoun calls architecture of communication. As another way to explore limits of communication, after Hole in Space by Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinovitz, The Tunnel under the Atlantic introduces the concept of dynamic semantic shared space.

Credits

• Interactive Music by Martin Matalon
• Curators: Daniel Soutif, Michael Century
• Software development: Tristan Lorach, David Nahon
• Production: Z-A Production

External links

• Maurice Benayoun's official web site
• The Tunnel under the Atlantic in Maurice Benayoun's web site
• official Blog/creation The Dump