Multi-sensory Simulators - Text 4
Another multi-sensory simulator was Edmund Alleyn's Introscaphe, which was presented for the first time at the Musée d’art moderne in Paris in 1970 alongside works by Boltanski and Sarkis as part of a group exhibition during which thousands of people tried it out.
This simulator took the form of a perfectly smooth and white monumental egg placed on a platform. The viewer was asked to insert two one-franc coins into its side and to press a button. At that moment a red indicator light turned off, a green light turned on, and then the Introscaphe opened automatically along a horizontal runner in a form of a pleasing sinuous line. The user could then enter the egg and sit on a comfortable rounded seat of beige vinyl. Soon, the vessel closed again hermetically.
