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The future of the web?
As technologically mediated experiences the Internet, games, cinema, television occupy ever more of our time and energy, it becomes increasingly vital that we create alternative spaces and environments for experience within these borderless territories of information and communication. Virtual World of Art invokes, manipulates and transforms the vocabulary and logic of game culture to create artistic engaging spaces which awaken aesthetic, emotional, social and intellectual responses radically different from those engendered by contemporary mass media. The project explores a variety of significant problems that cultural institutions committed to artistic practice within a networked electronic environment continue to face: how to create esthetically compelling and emotional online experiences, how to link physical and data spaces together, and how to effectively enable human communication and exchange in a physical space where local and remote visitors and performers can communicate virtually through technologies and computer interfaces.
Virtual World of Art investigates the artistic possibilities of immersive game technology and proposes new models for experiencing architectural and public spaces, sociability, and cultural production. Grounded in reality but not limited to realism, Virtual World of Art forms a dynamic, socially relevant, independent alternative to the existing art world, enabling artist to emancipate and develop a critical view of the future and meaning of contemporary art.
Virtual World of Art is the title for a series of new media art projects which subvert and reconfigure multi player game technology to create a network of artistic virtual environments. Each of these virtual environments called nodes, containing digital artworks and virtual art installations, is associated both conceptually and thematically with a specific site, arts centre or a public event where the project is presented on a long-term basis. These virtual environments are connected together by the internet forming a new kind of enlarged social and experiential public space for artistic expression and social exchange. VWA will connect at least 3 locations or nodes in order to function as a complete project. Each node explores a different notion of hybrid between physical and virtual public space. Visitors will be able to interact through terminals installed at the nodes or at any public space in the world that has a high-speed internet connection.
The people of Workspace Unlimited will discuss at the Vooruit with Jan De Pauw (philosopher), Jerry Galle (Lector at KASK) and Anouk De Clercq.
It is a coop between Hogent, KASK, Conservatorium. (yehyeh, my school)
May 23, at 8PM.
(I hope I can convince my school to record this for a podcast.)
Cat and Erik, hope you join me :)
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Posted on April 29, 2006
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It's an extremely cool project. I had the pleasure of working together with the Workspace Unlimited people on the VACF project (doing some setup and maintenance on their OS X server in the IBBT testlabs) and they gave me a small demo. Unbelievable stuff I tell you.
Anyway, I'll go too :)
Posted by CraHan | April 29, 2006 8:10 AMSounds like fun, won't be able to make it though. If you'd like a little more handson experience in this kind of stuff you might wanna join me on this workshop (http://www.steim.org/steim/workshops.php?id=94&b=1&r=1) ;).
Posted by erik | May 1, 2006 4:19 PM