The Beautiful Monster launch
17/05/09 10:15 PM Filed in: Games
The Beautiful Monster is an interactive experience made using Unreal Tournament by the current AIM students at RMIT. I have been helping out as an Executive Producer of the project and it is being launched this Thursday.
Due to the recent rise of the use of gaming as an art form, the conventions of gaming are being tested and the user can often expect to be challenged. This has been stretched to the extent that they are not even experiencing a game in its traditional form. The students of the Animation and Interactive Media course at RMIT have conceptualized, designed and created an interactive experience that follows firmly embraces these ethics.
“Beautiful Monster” is a collaborative project that has been created within a five week period. This interactive experience is an abstract simulation of our ideological society, where notions of the ‘real’ are questioned.
This abstract space is divided into three nodes, which are represented by three intangible elements: sound, colour and light. There are no obvious rules in this space. This is due to the fact the primary theme is to create a feeling of confusion through the unfamiliar and abstract, yet beautiful, environment. The experience generates alternative frontiers beyond 3D game environment and evokes different emotions than what the users would be accustomed to. Users’ experience varies according to different elements working together.
The Beautiful Monster launch
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Thursday 21st May
Virtual Reality Centre, RMIT University City Campus, in Building 91, Ground floor
110 Victoria Street
Melbourne, Australia
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Connection Generation
I'm just putting the finishing touches on this site for
author, Iggy Pintado. Connection Generation is the
supporting website for his book of the same name. The
book looks at connections in the age of internet and
mobile technologies and can be bought through the
website.
http://www.connectiongeneration.com
http://www.connectiongeneration.com
Tripod's Idioclips @ the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
10/04/09 01:41 PM Filed in: Animation
Idioclips is a competition put together by Australian comedy group Tripod, where people make music videos to any of their songs and the finalists are screened during the Comedy Festival, with the band playing the song live as accompaniment.
Lachlan and I put together an entry this year, in a very short amount of time, and have just been told that we've made the finals!
Come along and cheer us on! The screening and winners announcement is made on April 19th, 5pm, at the Comedy Theatre in Melbourne. You can book tickets through Ticketmaster and for more info, check out http://www.comedyfestival.com.au or http://www.3pod.com.au
See you there!
