lundahl&seitl co-laboratory / Whitechapel art gallery

This work is a computer-game activated in a physical location,
appropriating the human body as avatars. It suggests a virtualreality
building on human to human interaction, with a user
interface.
Our bodies are temporary receivers and transmitters of information.
Within this work the transmitter(player) is physically
remote from the receiver(avatar). The receiver's body is temporary
inhabited by a hacker; the player. Within a "zombie-like
state" the receiver physically embodies the transmitter's information,
thoughts, behaviours, desires etc. This establishes a
non-local connection in-between them where the transmitter's
mind becomes part of the receiver's body. The receiver becomes
an entity together with the transmitter and must be treated
as such.
To share the same social setting as someone taking the role
of the receiver, experiencing him/her becoming appropriated
by several different "distant observers" over time, might create
an odd presence and non-logic connections between actions.
An uncanny feeling of someone else's presence observing
you through the receiver's body, 'him/her' being just a layer
between two consciousness a corporeal material for remote
ventriloquism
The Copenhagen Interpretation states that we create reality by
observation and that there is no reality without observation. It is
but a short jump from that statement to the one that says that
the world (meaning universe) is but events of the mind. The
question is whether that mind is mine, yours, ours or Gods. It
also states that the act of observation bonds the observer and
the observed. Meaning that anything that you observe becomes
part of your reality. Evan though observing at a remote
distance. This is when non-local forces become involved. This
logic would have to be based on the premise that everything in
the universe is one unit and that what we sense as physical is
in reality constructed from non-material waves.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• contemporary
• art
• performance
• quantum-physics
• computer-games
• lundahl&seitl
• co-laboratory
• christer
• lundahl

[synonyms]

It looks seriusly interesting.. i wouldnt mind joining up in a event like this another time :) /synonyms.