Picture this: you're an animated whirligig, three spinning tiers of starfish-like forms, adrift in an arid dreamscape bathed in pulsating sound. You dance a flirtatious duet with an abstract creature, traverse a flock of beings behaving madly, break free of the boundaries of your hilly world. Across three screens in a space the size of a small multiplex movie theater, your computer-generated alter ego leads a playful, kinetic existence. Then it's back to a more familiar reality-as the next viewer is handed the Nintendo-style gamepad and with it control over Rebecca Allen's interactive art installation, "The Bush Soul."

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