Situated in the virtual reality of Second Life, a computer game without specific goals, the presented video work depicts sceneries of a virtual nature. This second nature resembles reality to some extend and defines the digital surroundings of the world and the way through which gamers play the game. Through a combination of abstracted sceneries and online messages from Second Life a spectator can enter this virtual reality as experienced by the gamers.

Based on recollections from the past Cars is a series of photos that investigates the meaning of representation and its relation to modern day communication in mass media. As a child, especially boys are socialized by playing with toy cars to be able to become 'real car' consumers later. In the 'playing years' an almost 'mystic' presence of toy cars is built in the mind of the child: the cars become 'personalities' with specific traits: the toy cars are linked to fantasy people that use the cars, their mutual relations and social status. In professional marketing the concept of 'brand personality' is used for describing this process in later age, never referring to the most important 'brand manipulation' in the child years. If the child is not socialized in a young age to get 'familiar' to cars, even on its 'toy level', it will be harder to sell cars when the kids have become adults. The photo series of Hans Kuiper refer to this process and try to explore and revive the 'magic' of his youth years which were filled with intensive car playing (next to drawing and music). For the series he went back to his parents' house, where the cars are still kept in a box at the attic. It was fascinating to discover that the cars had not lost their magic, although they were so tiny now. By the big size photo's Hans tries to revive the magic long gone by at a first glance, but in a scary way for Hans, a closer look shows there might be still an attachment. For the innocent visitor, though, the specific cars might have another meaning; it might be also that 'Cars' revives reminiscenses of youth car playing. By this project Hans tries to explore the power of photography to induce memories and feelings to the human mind, just as car advertising first works with photos and films to attract their potential buyer. In contrast to 'real car' advertising (the advertising photo's are already a reprentation), the toy car photo's become representations of representations and this layering of meaning in photography and film is fascinating to Hans Kuiper.

This installation was inspired by the 'The hard problem' paradigm. It is a central question in consciousness studies and can be formulated as to why physical processing should give rise to a rich inner life? The basic idea behind the work was to reflect light on sound, two independent media sharing similar mathematical functions. A beam of light from a projector is projected onto the live recorded sound of that device in operation by feeding the sound to a speaker that acted as the projector screen for the emitted image.

At an exhibition area in Second Life 3 different traps were created to catch or hit the inhabitants of the virtual world. A live video of these traps was shown on a computerscreen in a gallery in Amsterdam. People visiting the exhibition in real life could operate the traps by sending text-messages using their mobile phone to a specific number. The keywords 'catch', 'drop box' or 'hit' were respectively activating a hatch, dropping a box or turning a bat.

The installation enabled gallery visitors to experience an emotional connection with the avatars of the virtual world. The direct interaction through the harmfull virtual devices was appropriate to their role in the installation: being invisible but powerfull superbeings, deciding about the faith of the innocent virtual creatures beneath them.