Paul,
This sounds wonderful! I'm really interested in Blake, and l love the
Proverbs of Hell. Unfortunately I'm on Linux...
Edward
On 07/07/2021 18:02, Paul Hertz via NetBehaviour wrote:
This is probably the sort of thing I should mention in this list, the
product of long research and hard work, though I guess it may also
qualify as self-promo.
/Fools Paradise/, a virtual world based on the "Proverbs of Hell" of
English poet and artist William Blake, can be downloaded from
https://dimoda.art/, the Digital Museum of Digital Art. It is part of
an anthology of VR works, DiMoDA 3.0, that includes work by six
different artists. The download is donation ware, with the money going
to Covid relief. The software will run on MacOS and Windows (separate
downloads, though) either on the desktop or with a tethered VR headset
if you have the right hardware.
Perched on a highland in the form of an immense open book with a
stream of language/water running down its center, the virtual world
offers forty- eight interactive pavilions linked by a network of
paths. Each pavilion interprets a proverb as a song for soprano,
flute, cello, and spoken voice, as a mask, and as calligraphy. VR
architecture and code were created by Paul Hertz, music by Stephen
Dembski, sculptural masks by Mark Klink, and calligraphy by Koy
Suntichotinun
The VR architecture and the music are the result of a collaborative
process of intermedia composition that Stephen Dembski and I engaged
in over several years. In 2018 we showed our work at the XCoAx
conference in Madrid. You can read our presentation
<https://2018.xcoax.org/xCoAx2018.pdf#%5B%7B%22num%22%3A801%2C%22gen%22%3A0%7D%2C%7B%22name%22%3A%22Fit%22%7D%5D>
in the online Proceedings <https://2018.xcoax.org/>.
The work traveled extensively from 2018 to 2020, starting at SIGGRAPH
Asia in Bangkok, with stops in Vietnam, Arles, NYC, Chicago, Mexico
City, Lima, Toronto, Carbondale, Los Angeles, and points in between.
If you're so inclined, you can see the interview Stephen and I did
with Will Robertson and Alfredo Salazar Caro earlier this year:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/879732357
cheers,
-- Paul
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