The video-game Wow, you must be an intellectual! consists of a video-wall of 9 screens [3x3] and a video-game pistol on its stand, placed about three meters in front of the screens.
Each one of the nine screens is presented having an inhabitant.
Each inhabitant comes from a different nation speaking a different language.
Each inhabitant is monitored inside his house doing specifically one of the following actions, each one presented onscreen on individual clips:
> Sits comfortably in an armchair reading a book,
> Sits comfortably in an armchair reading out loud in his native language a specific part of Aristophanes play The Birds,
> Picks up a toy-weapon and shoots towards the direction of one of the neighboring screens.
> In separate clips, does at a time the same towards all -vertically and horizontally- neighboring screens,
> Looks straight towards the camera,
> Moves around inside his home doing ordinary things.
Each time an inhabitant shoots with his toy-weapon towards a neighboring screen, a funny sound is heard and the targeted screen plays a rather funny graphic animation and then turns black.
By the time all "survived" inhabitants, neighbor -vertically or horizontally- only to black screens, these screens start flashing simultaneously the message SHOOT in red letters.
The visitors' participation is at the point they decide to use the pistol on the stand and shoot towards the screens as they are told. Actually, this can be done at any point.
When a visitor pulls the trigger a loud BANG is heard followed by a voice saying Wow, you must be an intellectual!. The game then starts over.
The clips on the nine screens are programmed to play in an accidental sequence, so that, each time the game begins, the outcome will be unexpected.
Each one of the nine screens is presented having an inhabitant.
Each inhabitant comes from a different nation speaking a different language.
Each inhabitant is monitored inside his house doing specifically one of the following actions, each one presented onscreen on individual clips:
> Sits comfortably in an armchair reading a book,
> Sits comfortably in an armchair reading out loud in his native language a specific part of Aristophanes play The Birds,
> Picks up a toy-weapon and shoots towards the direction of one of the neighboring screens.
> In separate clips, does at a time the same towards all -vertically and horizontally- neighboring screens,
> Looks straight towards the camera,
> Moves around inside his home doing ordinary things.
Each time an inhabitant shoots with his toy-weapon towards a neighboring screen, a funny sound is heard and the targeted screen plays a rather funny graphic animation and then turns black.
By the time all "survived" inhabitants, neighbor -vertically or horizontally- only to black screens, these screens start flashing simultaneously the message SHOOT in red letters.
The visitors' participation is at the point they decide to use the pistol on the stand and shoot towards the screens as they are told. Actually, this can be done at any point.
When a visitor pulls the trigger a loud BANG is heard followed by a voice saying Wow, you must be an intellectual!. The game then starts over.
The clips on the nine screens are programmed to play in an accidental sequence, so that, each time the game begins, the outcome will be unexpected.
