
An interdisciplinary artistic project, bringing together interactive technologies and live performances. The streaming-telekinetic performance, realised simultaneously by four teams of artists and media art organisations (in Greece, the Netherlands, Bulgaria and Germany), connected three cities (Amsterdam, Athens and Sofia) through a live 3D computer game "See you in Walhalla".
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The collaborative performance "See you in Walhalla" was realised on 14 September 2006. The central performance took place in Athens, while two other site specific performances located in Amsterdam and Sofia were linked into the game via the internet.
Three geographically dislocated performers played simultaneously, interconnected by a 3D live game environment. According to Project Facilitator Floor van Spaendonck: "They represented different phases of confusion of the main character who gets mixed up in the virtual world: 'the avatar' of the game; 'the player', a real person who is playing the game; and 'the confused state of the player', a mix of half human and half avatar."
During the journey through the game the player/avatar wandered across a virtual trans-geographic cityscape made up of footage from Amsterdam, Athens and Sofia. The avatar's ability to provide a shell for being many people in many places at the same time enabled comparative explorations upon the social geography of urban life in Western cities. It also brought up questions about how global communication and digital art are influencing/changing our perception of the world.
Streams from the performance "See you in Walhalla" are available online.
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| GREECE | ||
| Cultural Centre of Kifissia | Maria Kerassioti (Project Leader), Maria Ladaki (Lead Project Facilitator) | |
| http://www.amorphy.org | amorphy.org | Tzeni Argyriou, Ioanna Tsinividi, Eleni Katsarou (Project Facilitator) and Ash Bulayev |
| BULGARIA | ||
| http://www.i-space.org | InterSpace | Galia Dimitrova (Project Facilitator), Stoicho Stanchev, Ivaylo Dimitrov |
| THE NETHERLANDS | ||
| http://www.waag.org | De Waag | Sher Doruff, Floor van Spaendonck (Project Facilitator), Arjen Keesmaat, Nancy Mauro-Flude |
| GERMANY | ||
| http://www.interaktionslabor.de | InteraktionsLabor | Johannes Birringer (Project Facilitator), Paul Verity Smith |
Related keywords
Type of project: Cultural Production , multidisciplinary , multimedia , performance
Country: Bulgaria , Germany , Greece , Netherlands, The
Location: Bulgaria , Greece , Netherlands, The
Arts & cultural categories Audiovisual & Media , electronic arts , new media & digital arts , Multidisciplinary Arts , Performing Arts , dance , theatre
Tagged as
Art–Science–Technology, artistic practice, computer game, interaction, media art
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