Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau: Intro Act & MIC Exploration Space
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Title:
- Intro Act & MIC Exploration Space
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Creation Year:
- 1996
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Artist Statement:
Free access to virtual space needs to be improved and facilitated by enabling realtime integration of human participants into a 3D environment. With this in mind, Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau designed MIC Exploration Space, a virtual environment that allows users to enter into two different rooms and virtually interact with each other in real time. The place functions as a new form of integration; development pictures, artificial life, and artistic features cr eate an evolving environment, one that reflects the participants’ personalities and their interactions with one another.
MIC also emphasizes communication between remotely located participants who share the same virtual environment. Real-time feedback and unencumbered interaction are essential when designing such a space. Mignonneau’s 3D Key System allows the participants to interact freely, with no devices attached to their bodies. A camera detection system tracks visitors’ gestures and motion and interprets them in real time as characteristic features in the evolving environment. This enables each visitor to create a unique environment that interprets his or her actions with the other user. Evolutionary graphic processes create an open-ended environment that is not predetermined but able to evolve over time.
Affiliation Where Artwork Was Created:
- ART-Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories
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Supported by
Commande de l’Etat français
Ministere de la Culture
