Interactive Video 2025.08

MINE MIND is a mixed-reality video installation in which the audience becomes an on-screen character and is pulled into a board game. At the center of the space is a perfectly square table, set with props such as number cards and a game board that guides the flow of play. When the audience sits down, the audience’s image is composited into the video in real time, and the experience begins as if the audience were seated around the table with the other characters, playing together.

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The setting is a mysterious, unidentified board game themed around cave exploration. Four players—including the audience—follow enigmatic rules, play number cards from 1 to 4, advance their tokens, and aim for the goal. Depending on which card the audience plays, and whether the audience wins or loses, the video branches and unfolds in different ways.

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With bone-conduction earphones, the audience can hear the other players’ “inner voices”—what they are thinking and which card they are about to play—turning the work into a psychological mind game rather than passive viewing. These voices can help the audience read others, take risks, or deliberately outplay them, dramatically affecting the outcome.

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What the work explores is how the audience can experience events inside a video as something personal. Instead of simply watching, the audience is drawn into the moving image and into the on-screen conversation, acting as if the audience had been there from the start. The result can feel like observing “another self” from a third-person perspective: not a mirror image, but a slightly distanced view—“So this is how others see the audience,” or “What will the audience do next?” By overlapping this sensation with the act of choosing in a game, the work creates a relationship beyond simple spectatorship or immersion, and can even echo the way the audience makes decisions and communicates in everyday life.

《MINE MIND》は、観客自身が映像の登場人物として参加する映像作品。空間の中央には真四角のテーブルがあり、その上にカードなどの小道具とゲームの進行を示す盤面が置かれている。そして観客が椅子に座ると、その姿がリアルタイムで映像に合成され、あたかも他の登場人物とともに、テーブルを囲んでボードゲームをプレイしているかのような体験が始まる。本作の舞台となるのは、正体不明のボードゲーム。テーマは「洞窟探索」で、観客を含めたプレイヤー4人が謎に満ちたルールに従い、1〜4の数字が書かれたカードを出しながら、コマを進めてゴールを目指す。作品の登場人物となった観客が、どのカードを出すか、勝つか負けるかによって映像の展開が変化していく。装着した骨伝導イヤホンからは映像内の他のプレイヤーの“心の声”—つまりゲーム中に何を考えているか、どの数字のカードを出そうとしているか—ということが聞こえてくる。これにより、ただのゲームや作品鑑賞とも違った心理戦や駆け引きが生まれ、時に心の声から他者の思考を読み、時に相手の裏をあえてかくことができ、勝敗は大きく左右される。そして、より作品の世界にのめり込み、実際にゲームに参加しているようなリアリティの高い、新しい鑑賞体験が可能になる。

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Furniture design: Nobuhiko Kawahara
Furniture production: Kamata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
3D modeling: Nanae Miyamoto
3D printing: Takayuki Hamada
Mechanism design: Shinya Matsuyama (siro), Takahiro Yoshioka
Mechanism production: Takahiro Yoshioka, Ryoga Kano (siro)
Cast: Komitsu, Ryoya Usuha
Installing support: Hiroki Akiyama
Support: NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC]