Kindergarten - Interactive Art by Joelle Bitton, Enrico Bravi, Ulf Harr and Raphael Meyer

Interactive installation about monsters and children in funfairs.

Kindergarten was designed to create a narrative environment (children and monsters playing hide-and-seek at the fun fair) where the user is immerged and guided by a sound navigation through shapes and pieces of pictures.
The installation consists of three visual and sound environments that represent the world fantasized over the funfair: the ghost-train, the distorting mirrors, and the peeping-hole.

The user moves in four directions (up, down, right, left) by means of the corresponding arrows of the keyboard. It is the sound and the music that take turns to drive the user towards the various environments, separated among them by screens of masks and shadows.

Authors: Joëlle Bitton, Enrico Bravi, Ulf Harr and Raphaël Meyer
Music: Philip Zoubek
Year: 2000 - 2001
Exhibitions and festivals:offline version presented at numer.00 (Paris), Operatotale (Venice), Chapelle des Beaux-Arts (Paris), FIFI (Lille), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Mains d'Oeuvre (St-Ouen), DATA (Dublin), Batofar (Paris), VIA (Maubeuge), EXIT (Créteil)

Web "light" version of the piece : http://www.superficiel.org/temp/kindergarten (shockwave)
Award: Prix Nouveaux Talents at the FIFI 2001

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Interactive
• installation
• monsters
• funfair
• Prater
• Vienna
• Joelle Bitton
• art
• media art
• exhibition
• festival VIA
• festival EXIT
• Operatotale
• cinemas de demain
• centre pompidou
• Raphael Meyer
• Ulf Harr
• Enrico Bravi
• Philip Zoubek
• Kindergarten