VISITOR beta / art and science / TV report

VISITOR beta / TV report
by Petr Tomaides /tomato22

VISITOR beta by Silver & Hanne Rivrud

What happens to the social games between people when one person is remotely controlled?

Inspiration:
The project questions the role of simulation in our everyday lives, and tries to reverse the simulation back into reality. Computer games are full of expected banality, and their main content is violence. It's always the same; killing the enemy. The player is in a safe position, while the danger action is simulated. The player can by controlling the avatar* simulate violence, without himself getting hurt. By taking the idea from a computer game one step further, we change the avatar into real people who can represent the player in real life.

Production team:
Martin Havnør
Hanne Rivrud
Petr Svarovsky
Johan Sæther
Christian Tviberg

Developed in collaboration with Vodafone GROUP R&D Germany and Atelier Nord, Oslo, Norway

for Czech television :
edited /directed/ additional camera/ Petr Tomaides
// original footage
(Camera: Hanne Rivrud, Johan Sæther
Editing and postproduction: Hanne Rivrud
more:
http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/program/p...
http://silver.avu.cz/visitor_beta/
http://www.tomato22.net

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• visitor
• beta
• art
• science
• Silver
• tomato22
• Hanne
• Rivrud

[petrsvar]

A new version, called Flirtman , is available for iPhone: : itunes.apple.com/us/app/flirtm­an/id412948262?mt=8