This interactive installation consists of a Volkswagen Type 1 car body and a 1/10 scale radio-controlled car modeled after it. The viewer climbs into the driver's seat and operates the steering wheel, accelerator, and shift lever. The radio-controlled car outside starts to drive in conjunction with the controls. The radio-controlled car is equipped with a small camera, and images from the viewpoint of the radio-controlled car are projected onto the car window. The viewer explores the world from the perspective of an insect or small animal.
The radio-controlled car is equipped with all kinds of sensors, including light and distance sensors, which react hypersensitively to small changes in the environment, and the control system takes the wheel from the operator. The system, in which obedient actions and malfunctions (i.e., bugs) are repeated, reverses the relationship between the operator and the thing being operated. Also, from a third party's perspective looking down on the work's operating scenery, the radio-controlled car moving right and left looks like a "bug."
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