Placement / Displacement seating experiment by Edo Paulus and Luna Maurer Visual Power Show on Next Nature, 20.01.2005 Paradiso Amsterdam The audience is seated according to a set of rules.
Placement / Displacement is a model in which people simulate the logic of a computer system. This living model consists of entities (spectators) that are bound by rules. When the rules cause the individual entities to react on each other, a whole comes into existence that is constantly in motion. You can't design the patterns that emerge beforehand and you can't foresee the result. Especially not when PEOPLE are executing these rules instead of computers.
the rules were projected on the big video screen
computer executing the rules	audience executing the rules
visitors measured at the entrance
card handed out after measuring
Thank you: Celine Wouters (measuring and guiding the public) Maaike Gouwenberg (measuring and guiding the public) Debbie Mollenhagen (measuring and guiding the public) Adelijn van Huis (measuring and guiding the public) Ana Luisa Goncalves (video) Kerstin Reinert (photos)		.