Where
Campo San Giacometto, near the Rialto Bridge, Venice.
The Gobbo statue
The installation, a physical game, is built near a famous statue, the “Gobbo”, which provides the right mood and hosts all the main outputs. In fact the highest reward is a Venetian proverb about wine spoken by the Gobbo itself, which lets the user know something about Venice culture.
Users
The Gobbo supports the platform from where were proclaimed the public orders and laws from the Republic of Venice to the citizens, and was later used as a finishing post for a sort of public punishment, a naked run starting in San Marco, imposed on the people proven to have bad behaviour in private life.
This place is now always crowded in the evening, when young and less young people enjoy the Venetian “movida”, chatting and drinking.
When
The installation is active all the time, but it has a slightly different behaviour by day then by night. In the first case there aren’t light outputs on the Gobbo and the column, and the path works in a way that is much easier to get the reward. During the night, when the public lights are switched on, the installation changes mood, and gets all its features: the “health” level, the visual outputs on the statue and a more restrictive path error detection. The audio output, works in the same way both night and day.
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