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Interactive multimedia
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Avatar is an other installation about metamorphoses. The project was presented at the fashion event Mode 2001, Landed/Geland in Antwerp (Belgium), curated by the fashion designer Walter Van Beirendonk. In the frame work of this event, an ethnical-historical exhibition (Mutilate/Vermink) was made in the MUHKA (Museum for Contemporary Art, Antwerp) about the mutilation of the human body from an esthetical point of view. I attributed to this exhibition with this project as the ‘futuristic’ part, about the idea of ‘avatars’. Avatars (alter ego’s in cyberspace) are in some way the further development of changing the human body and its representation, in the sense that you create a complete new, electronic body. Several figures were designed and projected on a catwalk 360° around the audience. Each avatar was connected with one person from the public, with a motion tracking system, so that we could figure out in which direction that person was looking. The connected avatar would always walk in the direction that person was looking. When two avatars would cross, some interactions between them were implemented in the program.
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PICTURES (click
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