Just Art Stuff
Last month at Cinematexas, Eddo Stern premiered Darkgame (a prototype), a sensory-deprivation game that explores whether a video game can exist without a visual interface. Two opponents have to guide their avatar around a 2D plane, their movements projected against a gallery wall. One person is completely “blind”, responding only to nonvisual cues: related audio signals, & the vibrations of a headset Stern designed to correspond with the location of the opposing player. I, also, have one such prototype. I call it MY LIFE!
No visual cues.
Weird head gear. (yes I have Famke Jansen Dr. Jean Grey reddish hair now. It does rock.)
Walking around bumping into things.
MORE ART....
El Muro, by Willy Sengewald & Richard The, is a project about walls. Walls as transition itself, as medium, as object for agression and as object of meaning.
Situated right in the middle of a room (think of the monolith in 2001 Space Odyssey), El Muro repeats the statements written on it over and over again. They start fading as soon as they've been written, just like the political statements (ideas/utopias/protest). Just how political graffiti works - instant appearing, almost instant fade as well. Strong at first and weakening (or tempered) over time. It's an interesting piece.
OK, self-censure.... its too early to be thinking conceptually. Tomorrow will be a light, breezy entry stolen from the blog of a little-known comedian.
