Switzerland. Bern canton. Biel / Bienne. Arteplage, Expo 02. "Cyberhelvetia.ch". Cyberhelvetia is a game with realities, where the real and the virtual are thoroughly intermingled. Cyberhelvetia could be taken for an open-air swimming pool. Designed as a traditional Swiss bathing resort, its architecture symbolises a place where people meet and communicate with digital technologies. Behind the front is a pool where you dont plunge into water but into virtually expanded realities. And if you lie down on a recliner at the pool side or on one of the air mattresses floating on the water, you may experience some unusual contacts with other people. You may even know them from the Net, or from reality. National exhibition. © 2002 Didier Ruef