By interacting with the miniaturised space of Panopticon, the user is transformed into a controlling giant. Although the link is not immediately apparent in the gallery, when the user picks up a box on a plinth, the furniture on the screen in-front begins to move. Depending on the actions of the user, it can slowly creep across the room, or dance about, violently smashing into walls. It has been proposed that the possibility of being watched is the regulating force of modern society.
In Panopticon, the viewer can take pleasure in their control of this Lilliputian space, but only with the knowledge that a surveillance camera is probably over their shoulder.