Place - Ruhr
Description
Artist Statement
In this installation a rotating platform allows the viewer to interactively rotate a projected image within a large circular projection screen and explore a three dimensional virtual environment constituted by an emblematic constellation of panoramic locations and cinematic events. The work presents a virtual landscape containing eleven cylinders that show particular sites in the Ruhr area. The viewer can navigate this 3D space and enter these panoramic cylinders, inside each of which a surrounding cinematic sequence fills the projection screen and presents a 360 degree pre-recorded situation and acted event[...]A microphone on top of this interface camera picks up any sound that the viewer makes, and this causes the release of continuously moving three dimensional words and sentences within the projected scene.
Source of Artist Statement
In this installation a rotating platform allows the viewer to interactively rotate a projected image within a large circular projection screen and explore a three dimensional virtual environment constituted by an emblematic constellation of panoramic locations and cinematic events. The work presents a virtual landscape containing eleven cylinders that show particular sites in the Ruhr area. The viewer can navigate this 3D space and enter these panoramic cylinders, inside each of which a surrounding cinematic sequence fills the projection screen and presents a 360 degree pre-recorded situation and acted event[...]A microphone on top of this interface camera picks up any sound that the viewer makes, and this causes the release of continuously moving three dimensional words and sentences within the projected scene.
Source of Artist Statement
Creator
Shaw, Jeffrey
Date
2000
Contributor
Mathias, Adolf [Software]
Kiel, Andreas [Software]
Nelissen, Huib [Hardware]
Rights
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Genre
Interactive video installation
Platform
Video installation
Citation
Shaw, Jeffrey, “Place - Ruhr,” ADELTA, accessed April 28, 2024, http://adelta.westernsydney.edu.au/items/show/198.