Converge is an interactive work for Deep Space 8K by the Ars Electronica Futurelab, based on SHARESPACE, a large European R&D project on using avatars in social situations. In Converge, up to ten participants on site and one external person in a motion capture suit are tracked – they have to communicate through movement and…
*falcon heavy is a multi-user experience and stereoscopic audiovisual sculpture for Deep Space 8K, generated in real-time. An ever-shifting entity rules the ritualistic semi-virtual arena; populated by people participating together to find synchronous signals in all the noise.
State of Play:شهر بازی by artists Tara Habibzadeh, Harriet Davey, and Mati Bratkowski, is a game-based participative art performance referencing the 7 Labors of Rostam in the long epic poem Shahnameh by Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi (Iran, 977–1010 CE). In it, up to 5 audience members reenact the final labour, controlling their avatars of Rostam in…
How could humans use digital avatars in the near future? How can we engage in social situations that include both human and automated avatars? And what technology do we need to explore these ‘hybrid’ spaces together? This is the focus of the European R&D project SHARESPACE.