“Another Kind of Chess Game” by Jeffrey Shaw
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Another Kind of Chess Game
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Original work of art: Chinese chess board painted on the back with flowers of the four seasons by Giuseppe Castiglione
A 3D computer graphic representation of Castiglione’s painted chessboard is horizontally projected onto a low table. The viewer uses an array of sixteen buttons, mounted on a pedestal, to flip each of the board’s sixteen segments and thereby create different combinations of its painted and chessboard aspects.
