Yen to See Distant Places.

Masquerading as a telescope, this installation by Nicole Heidtke and Stefan Baumberger can be found in St.Andrew's Square as part of this year's Edinburgh Art Festival. Displaying views of an idealised Scotland through the eyepiece, the illustrations one sees here are taken from the printed and hand-tinted cards used in a novelty game called Myriorama.

Dating from the early Nineteenth Century, children could arrange these cards in different ways to create a range of panoramic, imaginary vistas at a time when the use of spectacular landscapes was in vogue - to inform and entertain both on large and small scales either in whole rooms or on the printed page.

As the telescope is moved around, the eyepiece display creates a sweeping virtual cosmorama that gives the impression almost of looking back to a time when the Seven Hills of Edinburgh were untouched by civilsation.