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Panopticon is an interactive sound installation using real-time data to augment a user's body for a virtual sound experience, in which the stories of prisoners and their path to prison are heard.

Using the Panoptic design by Jeremy Bentham in which "a single watchman can observe all inmates of an institution without the inmates being able to tell whether or not they are being watched," the user is placed in the position of the watchman where they can peer and spy into the prisoners’ lives.

As the user moves around the invisible watchtower the sound of a different prisoner will begin to move towards them allowing the user to listen in on the prisoner’s story.

Exhibits & Showcases

DIGITAL BERLIN / 2017 / Berlin, Germany

IRCAM POMPIDOU FORUM WORKSHOPS / 2015 / Paris, France

FEATURED LECTURE AT PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN / 2015 / Paris, France