sense:less
a project by Mork/Pendry/Stenslie/Watz |
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on image for high resolution version The
image shows a user inside the egg shaped installation and the projection
of what he sees onto the plastic sphere. |
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| sense:less is a
place for humans to experience a stranger alternate reality. |
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| Through VR technology
and a custom made body suit sense:less puts the user in a multi-sensory
environment. This is a dramatic space, influenced by theatre, and the users
journey through the world is an exploration of multiple personalities. People
watching the installation can see the users travels as projected onto the
walls of the sense:less egg, a five metre high contruction of plastic and
steel. |
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| The user stands
inside the semi transparent plastic egg which is inflated by a cool air
fan, and suspended by metal arms over a steel platform. Video images of
the virtual world are projected onto the eggs walls and these images are
seen by both the user and the spectators outside the shell. A speaker system
broadcasts everything the user hears to the audience. |
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click
on image for high resolution version The
image shows a user inside the egg shaped installation and the projection
of what he sees onto the plastic sphere. |
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On entering the installation
the user straps on stereoscopic viewing glasses and a light weight body
suit. The custom made suit contains sixteen areas of stimuli in the form
of vibrating pads. In this way the creatures in sense:less can touch the
user. The intensity of the touch depends on the individual creatures personality
and mood. A navigating
wand gives the user their motion in the world, while the viewing glasses
give direction. |
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| Five creatures live
in the virtual world of sense:less. The creatures have human voices, alien
bodies and distinct personalities. They are based on real people and personal
experience, and each has a story they need to tell. |
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click
on image for high resolution version The
image shows a view of the installation in light |
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| The virtual world the
creatures live in is a constantly changing network structure based on realtime
data derived from a World Wide Web server. In this way users on the net
become points on this network, indicating net activity and the virtual presence
of other human users. These human users are represented by mechanoid 'agents'
who constantly roam the virtual world, changing shape and direction depending
on the users behaviour in the hypertext structure of the World Wide Web
server. |
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| Project
history |
| sense:less was
originally commissioned by the Henie-Onstad Art Center for the exhibition
Electra '96. The project was realized through support of the Henie-Onstad
Art Center and Silicon Graphics Norway. |
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sense:less won
an honorary mention in the Interactive Art category of the
Prix Ars Electronica 1996 . |
| sense:less was
shown at DEAF '96 in September 1996. |
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Project
team biographiesclick on link for text on
the project team
Knut Mork: Application
programming + text
Kate Pendry: Text + sound + voices
Stahl Stenslie: Bodysuit + installation design
Marius Watz: Graphic programming + design |
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Project
video documentation
Follow
this link for a 11 MB, 5 minutes QuickTime, Web quality documentation
of the project. |
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