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Canticle
"Canticle" was written for Brown University's CAVE immersive virtual reality environment. Like a concerto, it was composed in three movements and arranged for collaborative performance between a solo user and programmed VR environment. In "Canticle", The CAVE system and its user operate in concert: rendering the world through cooperation and opposition. The tone of "Canticle" plays upon the spectacle of VR by inducing an aesthetic environment that is overly saturated despite its basic composition of greyscale letterforms. Evocative text and audio were used to assist this effect: "The Song of Solomon" and Nico Muhly's MotherTongue. A study of "The Song" resonated with the project's themes: the seduction of spectacle and awareness of a physical body within immersive spaces of illusion. Movements were written in response to spectacles that are native to the CAVE. Description of each movement refers to the specific quality of spectacle it explores: periphery, reactivity, stereoscopy, interface, depth or immersion.
Stig Andreassen - 20.03.2012 - 15:12
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Against Information: Reading (in) the Electronic Waste Land
Digital approaches to information processing foreground the unique interdependence between
knowledge and its representation that has been characteristic of western epistemology for the past five centuries. The essential role representation formats play in modern knowledge construction is generally accepted in all disciplines, attributing, learning and intellectual progress less to one's direct engagement with actual phenomena, and more to notational structures that convey its formulation. In this paradigm, knowledge follows exclusively from its theoretical articulation, not the other way around.Eric Dean Rasmussen - 22.06.2012 - 16:53
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Ekspositur: Ein Virtueller Wissensraum
Irgendwo im Saal der Ichtyologischen Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums liegt eine versteckte und geheime Tür, die zu einem weitverzweigten unterirdischen Wegesystem führt. Dieses Wegesystem, das kein Mensch je betreten hat, besteht aus subterrestrischen Passagen, aus frei schwebenden Stiegenhäusern, aus Treppen, die aus plutonischem Gebirgsgestein gehauen sind und verbindet als intramuseales Myzel 10 Museen. Das Wegesystem leitet weiter zu den großen Museen in anderen Städten, zu einem intergalaktischen Datenraum und zu etlichen Wunderkammern des 16. Und 17. Jahrhunderts. Im virtuellen Wissensraum von fuchs-eckermann wird ein kosmo-elektrischer Wissensraum vorgestellt, der als Computerspiel eine Schnittstelle zwischen Wissensreservoirs, Sammlungen, Konzepten und Vermutungen implementiert. Themenketten, die der klevere Museumsgänger denken, aber nicht betrachten kann, werden im vituellen Wissensraum sichtbar und hörbar gemacht: Technologie > Prothesen > Prothesengott > Zyklamentraum > Pflanzensymbolik > Blumenornamente > Lastwagenbemalung > Pakistan > Orient > Orientalismus.
Anders Fagerjord - 20.08.2013 - 11:08
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Beyond Manzanar
Within an enclosed darkened room, the image of Beyond Manzanar's 3-dimensional space is projected onto a large, wall-sized screen. The life-sized image fills your field of view and gives you a feeling of immersion within the virtual space. A joystick mounted on a pedestal in the middle of the room allows you to move your viewpoint at will through the virtual space. Speakers mounted on either side of the screen provide stereo sound. Although only one person at a time can control movement in the space, others can watch and share the experience. We have combined techniques of computer games and theater design to create a highly symbolic, often surreal environment with a poetic reality stronger than photorealism. The mountain panorama that defines the Manzanar site forms a constant backdrop for shifting layers of superimposed context. Open doors lead viewers through spaces that react to their presence, shifting between home and prison, between paradise and wasteland, to investigate Manzanar as a layering of contradictory and complementary images and emotions for two groups of immigrants.
Anders Fagerjord - 20.08.2013 - 11:19
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Cardamom of the Dead
Written in Unity for use with Oculus RIFT glasses, Cardamom of the Dead is a literary VR environment - the user wanders through a virtual environment filled with a vast collection of things a narrator, heard in voice-over, has hoarded over years (decades? centuries?). The environment is filled with debris and stories and the piece is ultimately a meditation on collecting as madness, consoling practice and memory palace.
(Source: ELO 2014 Media Arts Show)
Scott Rettberg - 24.06.2014 - 19:14
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Sheila Carfenders, Doctor Mask, & President Akimbo
VR novel for Oculus Rift
Sheila Carfenders, Doctor Mask & President Akimbo is a novel translated into virtual reality (for Oculus Rift) – a political fable of robots, sex work, hallucinogens and the consequences of power. The viewer is transported through mental hospitals, taxis, hotels and palaces mostly on rails, but with some space to explore the scenes in sandbox mode, enabling an encounter with hundreds of archival photographs and pencil sketches and found audio from across asia. The narrative – disturbing and comical and haunting and revelatory – is encountered through the spoken word of a single narrator.
Experience the troubling, bizarre and absurd life of Sheila Carfenders, a 22-year-old mental patient who is abducted by her abusive San Francisco psychiatrist, Doctor Mask. With the Oculus Virtual Reality system, go with Doctor Mask as he takes Sheila to an impoverished Asian country decaying from a violent insurgency. The Mask hopes to build his own experimental psychiatric institution after making deals with the corrupt regime’s delirious leader, President Akimbo.
Sheila’s fate?
Unexpected amid a coup.
Erik Aasen - 22.09.2016 - 15:25
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Nightmares for Children
“Nightmares for Children” is a found-footage virtual reality installation with a fictional backbone and original soundscape created for Oculus Rift with touch. The viewer/reader will be immersed in 360 video with VR assets and 2D video as overlays and will navigate through a series of dreamy horrors in different emotional registers using the intuitive Oculus touch interface. The piece allows for a very small child’s voice and infant storytelling to sound fully, but at the same time is crafted as a meditation on the imagery in children’s dreams and what it might trigger in the adult imagination - the authors’ hands are apparent in the way the sometimes banal horror of the dreamscapes extends and escalates. “Nightmares for Children” also constitutes an e-lit experiment in the Rift guided by the premise that personal VR headsets enabling immersive electronic literature might constitute ideal dream machines. Tech requirements: we will bring a laptop and Oculus RIFT.
(Source: ELO 2017: Book of Abstracts and Catalogs)
Filip Falk - 06.09.2017 - 17:09
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Nightmares for Children
"Nightmares for Children" is a found-footage virtual reality installation with a fractional backbone and original soundscape created for Oculus Rift with touch. The viewer will be inmersed in 360 video with VR assets and 2D video overlays and will navigate through a series of dreamy horrors in different emotional registers using the intuitive Oculus touch interface. The piece allows for a very small child's voice and infant storytelling to sound fully, but at the same time is crafted as a mediattion on the imagery in children's dreams and what it might trigger in the adult imagination.
Juan Manuel Altadill Casas - 14.09.2017 - 18:42
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From Virtual Reality to Phantomatics and Back
Paisley Livingston on Stanislaw Lem and the history and philosphy of Virtual Reality.
tye042 - 05.10.2017 - 14:20
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Zonder Handen
‘Zonder Handen’ (No Hands) is an immersive 360° installation in which you can experience the philosophical poem ‘Zonder Handen’ written by Micha Hamel for and about the experience of virtual reality. Studio APVIS director Demian Albers visualized this poem in an Oculus Rift environment.
‘Zonder Handen’ is part of Literature on Screen. This is a program in which digital designers and writers jointly develop narrative productions for the tablet or smartphone and centers on the creative interaction between the author and the designer.
(Source: http://apvis.nl/zonder-handen/)
Hannah Ackermans - 06.11.2017 - 16:20
