by admin, on 10 September 2012 14:24:53 CEST
The installation exhibitied at the Gamerz 2010 festival presented 3D environments that were developed collaboratively during the last few months by Libat and Prague College. Visitors could enter and navigate through the virtual space and discover different types of cells connected to the “Rhizome architecture” of the 3D Labin ex-coal mine tunnels reconstructed by Libat.
Gamerz is an international multimedia festival exploring the borders between art and new technologies. From the 3rd to 19th of December, the sixth edition of the festival transformed the city of Aix-en-Provence into a huge playground. More than 85 international artists exhibited their work through 1500 square meters in 8 different cultural places in town.
The UC3D environments are the produce of interdisciplinary collaboration and are inspired by Stefano Cavagnetto's and Bruce Gahir's papers “The conception of the self in multiple cyber worlds” where they are discussing issues of personal identity and proposing a model of the Self in the Cyberspace based on information theory; the “The Code of Coal” and “Cellular Automata and the Game of Life” about algorithms and representation; and “Morality and Artificial Agents in Cyberspace”.
The project is a transnational Agora which connects interactive media artists, architects, programmers, designers, interdisciplinary researchers, students through series of workshops, seminars and laboratories to imagine, create, share alternative models for building future European multicultural communities and elaborating new citizenship principles with the public participation.
Underground City 3D (UC3D) is part of the longer project “Underground City XXI platform” which has been until now developing workshops/laboratories in order first to define research and experiment about what would be the future 3D digital environments and community. The purpose is to use and enhance the potential of the interdisciplinary network developed last years to concretely create mixed-media art works, to implement them as part of the platform as a City organization, and to open the digital city to general public on the Internet. It also whishes to open a public discussion on the issues of building new forms of societies by implying European citizen participative reflection.
UC3D/XXI principal partners are Libat (FR), Prague College (CZ), LAE (HR), NomadTheatre (A), M2Fcréation (FR), and NxGraphics (FR)
UC3D/XXI is supported by European Cultural Foundation (ECF) and European Commission.
