Saturday March 14 Pernille With Madsens project for Boom Pearls, Endless Structure opened in Second Life. The project was created in collaboration with NewBerlin, Jan Northoff helped to connect to a scripter, who worked with some of the latest technology in scripting in SL.
The video below is from the opening. First theres a simple drawing at the ground, then it turns into a hole which draws avatars around inside, and then it the hole goes back to drawing state, before it goes upwards and turns into a building and with a hole turning up in one of the walls. Since its 3D it doesn’t go on, that’s not possible. So it loops endlessly.
Pernilles projects is about vertigo. Here it worked through the avatar, and the avatars pulled into the hole lost control in an unexpected way, though they might have read the press release. The french sociologist who wrote on play, Roger Caillois defined one way of playing as searching for vertigo, or ilinx. Since its also about using an avatar, the practice of the audience is also about playing a role, so theres a bit more to it than vertigo, eg mimicry, in relatation to audience patterns as suggested by Chris Bateman. Read more about Pernille With Madsen at her homepage, and at BoomPearls.com.
Endless Structure from jon paludan on Vimeo.