Melinda Rackham


Empyrean | soft e_scape


Avatars in Charm scape [link 01]

Avatars in Charm scape

Kurzdarstellung

Kurzbeschreibung

Empyrean is a web based, multi-user VRML environment, investigating the concept of the net being a living organic space - presenting a post colonial perspective by redressing the dominant net desire to recycle virtual space as a poor imitation of the real. This parallel universe of seven intertwined e-scapes, are contained and constructed in electronic space - a "soft scape". It is a place of emptiness - of hungry voids, transversed by avatistic in-tensions and strange attractions. In empyrean multiple users interact via their avatars within the art work, to become part of that empyrean, navigating thru poetic texts, intricate soundscapes, and subtly transparent images within the worlds of order, truth, beauty, strangeness, charm, chaos, and void.

KünstlerInnen / AutorInnen

  • Melinda Rackham, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australien

Entstehung

Australien, 2000-2001

Partner / Sponsoren

University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australien

Eingabe des Beitrags

Melinda Rackham, 15.06.2001

Kategorie

  • künstlerische Arbeit

Schlagworte

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Ergänzungen zur Schlagwortliste

  • Avatar |
  • Multi-user VRML |
  • Soft Scape |
  • Open Source |
  • Post Colonialism
  • › cast01//Living in Mixed Realities [link 02]

» http://www.subtle.net/empyrean [link 03]

  • › PDF File [238 KB ] [link 04]
  • › Screenshot 1 - Chaos [JPEG | 229 KB ] [link 05]
  • › Screenshot 2 - Charm [JPEG | 168 KB ] [link 06]
  • › Screenshot 3 - Truth [JPEG | 211 KB ] [link 07]
  • › Screenshot 4 - Void [JPEG | 209 KB ] [link 08]