"Having identified that the pitch would offer some assistance early on, they inserted the visitors but were without luck as it was unanimously accepted at lunch that they deserved far more than the two wickets they returned in the session.
Visitors simply insert their ticket into a machine and out it pops with a return time, which has a one-hour window of opportunity.
Boxes of long, coloured drinking straws are offered, which visitors can insert into the structure where they want, which is to make the point that we should be able to interact with the spaces we occupy.
In order to interact with the installation, the visitors must insert a specially-designed paper ballot filled with sample drum patterns.
The 8-foot-long "painting machine" that Tinguely set up at the first Paris Biennale in 1959 produced some 40,000 different paintings for exhibition visitors who inserted a coin in its slot.
Mr. Piano solved the riddle of adding to a site without appearing conspicuously to do so by burrowing into the brow of the hill, below the chapel, and inserting the convent and visitors' center into the cuts, half buried, with zinc-and-glass facades to let in light.
A visitor inserted a quarter, twirled some knobs, and had the sensation, partly real, of producing, with his ignorant hands, a marvellously unholy barrage of noise.
As for the Coin-Operated Melody Gin (as in cotton gin, short for "engine"), Leon said, "For twenty-five cents you can have a four-minute avant-garde experience". A visitor inserted a quarter, twirled some knobs, and had the sensation, partly real, of producing, with his ignorant hands, a marvellously unholy barrage of noise.
The pavilion contains a mobile home with holes in its sides through which visitors are to insert an arm or a pair of legs.
Visitors are invited to insert blank DVD-R discs to receive the actual exhibition content, which will vary from burn to burn.
