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Abstract
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.
Artists / Authors
- Melinda Rackham, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- Mitchell Whitelaw, sound design
- Horst Kiechle, additional scipting and modeling
Origination
Germany, 2000-2001
Partners / Sponsors
College of Fine Arts, UNSW; Australia Council for the Arts; Banff Center for the Arts, Canada;Vislab, Sydney
Submission
Melinda Rackham, Jun 15, 2001
Category
- artistic production
Keywords
Additions to Keyword List
- Multi-user VRMLOpen SourcePost ColonialismSoft ScapeAvatar