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THIRD LIFE PROJECT

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WORLDWIDE OPEN CALL FOR MINECRAFT PLAYERS TO JOIN A LIVE PERFORMANCE


Within the frame of Third Life Project we are looking for enthusiastic Minecraft players to join online the life performances at WUK Theater in Vienna, Austria and make their avatars move to the tune in the virtual discotheque that is a part of it. DJ Stevie is behind the decks and on the dancefloor with you! Customized avatars very welcome!


The dates are 8 & 9 & 10 October 2015


 8pm-9pm CET (GMT+02:00)


For more information please visit:


 http://www.planetminecraft.com/server/thirdlifeserverorg/


THIRD LIFE PROJECT


8. & 9. & 10. OCTOBER 2015, 8 PM


WUK Saal, Währinger Straße 59, 1090 Vienna


High Performance Computing meets Performance Art


In their performative lecture the artists together with an international team of experts exploit technology and employ artistic vision to blur the lines between human beings and machines and between reality and imagination. They explore up-to-date possibilities of development of an avatar performance for a real life audience, which operates within mixed realities (real and “second life”) and coessentially aspires to open the door to the “third life”, where virtuality can transgress directly into reality.


With the use of a “smart stage” they address the new performative possibilities of virtual environments that aren’t limited or constrained by the local space that the physical bodies inhabit. This unique interface of a simulated virtual world, Internet of Things and novel tracking technologies allow virtual characters to perform activities in the real world, whereas activities of performers in the real world enable changes in the virtual world. The notion of third life is manifested here not only in the synchronous interconnection of the virtual and the real but also in their divergence alike, and brings up for question and re-examination what a body is, how a body operates and whether that body is alive or dead, real or virtual. 


Concept/Dramaturgy/Scenography/Performance: Otto Krause & Milan Loviška.
Scientific and technological implementation of the project:
Virtual world expertise: Stellenbosch University/MIH Medialab (ZAF). Supervisor: Herman Engelbrecht, Assistance: Jason Bradley Nel.
Tracking: Simula Research Lab & LABO Mixed Realities (NO). Supervisor: Carsten Griwodz, Assistance: Lilian Calvet, Håvard Espeland.
Cyberphysical devices and Non-Player-Characters: University of Duisburg-Essen (DE). Supervisor: Gregor Schiele, Assistance: Alwyn Burger, Stephan Schmeißer, Christopher Cichiwskyj.


A co-production of Territorium – Kunstverein and WUK Performing Arts in Vienna. With the kind support of the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs, the Arts Division; and the Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria. With the contribution from the FiPS project funded from the EU’s 7th Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 609757. Thanks to LABO Mixed Realities in Norway, the EU project POPART (Previz for On-set Production - Adaptive Realtime Tracking) funded under grant agreement no 644874 and the Stellenbosch University in South Africa.  




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