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The Machine in the Garden
Nancy Paterson/Can

The Machine in the Garden is an interactive installation which deals with gambling and spirituality. The interface is a custom-designed casino slot-machine. Three liquid crystal displays (LCD’s) display scrolling video imagery when the viewer pulls the slot-machine arm. Each video display focuses on one of three themes: imagery of war;: talking heads of politicians and game-show hosts, and children’s commercial television programming. The scrolling imagery on each video display increases gradually in speed and then comes to a random, rolling stop on the final image: a woman’s face. The use of the Buddhist motif - *See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil* - emphasizes our postmodern obsession with gambling and spirituality. Increasingly, we turn to miracles.
Three PIONEER LD- V8000 laserdisc players and a custom-designed controller comprise the hardware for this installation. Equipment support provided by PIONEER and CASINO. The Machine in the Garden was produced with the assistance of The Canadian Council and the Ontario Arts Council.

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