Nobuhisa Ishizuka’s Heaven’s Eye is a creative installation from 2004 wherein a monitor is placed on the floor face up, with video playing of a cityscape beneath it. Creating the impression of a window to a non-existant space beneath you, the user can move the monitor along the floor, and with it, the view they see in relation to the movements. Move the monitor up and the view will shift appropriately, as if you’re carving a hole through the ground and shifting the hole. I enjoy Nobuhisa’s final point:
Chasing people from above the sky, you may feel as if you became someone like god. But your movement to chase people with monitor is controlled by the movement people walking inside the monitor.
Project Page [iamasJP via WMMNA]
