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City Interactive is an announcement of the city as an art object
and an investigation of it as an interactive media space. By using
physical manipulation and navigation of real objects, language and
intelligence, as well as historical, philosophical, social and political
factors of a city, Akuvido created an interactive multimedia view
of a modern city on the internet.
http://city.v2.nl/
Using digital pictures and video, the everyday interaction of the
city was investigated and the assembled information was put into
the computer. With the help of graphical and video programs the
information was collated and built into the interface and navigation
tools of the project. The interface of the project is interactive
with a map of the city on which link-addresses of real objects was
situated and transformed into the interactive style of the project,
connected as a whole intellectual, visual, written and sound labyrinth
of the city.
The information on different aspects of the City created movement,
interactivity and artistic imagery of the city. The information
and our knowledge build a complete picture of a real representation,
but actually consists of millions of fragments that have millions
of meanings and is impossible to take in at one time.
Akuvido considers the city as a program that controls information
and wanted to investigate the different fragments of the city, and
to unite these fragments in one whole for the public imagination.
Creations in City Interactive become situations in the real city
and show how the physical space transfers or digitizes into virtual
space and how the virtual space with the tools of new technology
begins to influence the real space of the city. Getting in with
their cables, monitors, sensors, web-cams, Internet, it grows in
to the space like a nervous system that controls the reality, exchanges
in the information, comes alive, changing and giving new appearance
in reality and becomes a program tool -- a truly interactive game.
Date of production 2004
Place V2 Lab, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, EMARE artist in resudence
BIOGRAFIA DOS AUTORES: Akuvido is the name for
the two Berlin-based Ukrainian media-artists Hanna Kuts and Viktor
Dovhalyuk. Both artists followed education at the Academy of Art
in Lviv, Ukraine, and at the Institut für Neue Medien in Berlin.
At present they explore their interdisciplinary field from several
viewpoints in order to combine sound, video, photo and computer
animation into software-based interactive projects. Each project
represents a game, which synthesizes a different interpretation
and expression of environment to another, i.e. from abstract minimalism
to the world of media games. Akuvido exhibited at numerous international
festivals, e.g. transmediale (Berlin), netmage (Bologna), New Forms
Festival (Vancouver), and received First Prize in the Concours International
de Net-Art at Villette Numerique Festival (Paris).
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