Maurice Benayoun, Jean-Babtiste Barriere: WorldSkin
Title:
WorldSkin
Artist(s) and People Involved:
Exhibiting Artist(s):
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Maurice Benayoun
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- City University of Hong Kong
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Jean-Babtiste Barriere
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- Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique(IRCAM)
Symposium:
Venue(s):
Medium:
VR
Artist Statement:
The visitor is transformed into a virtual tourist equipped with a camera and projected in three-dimensional representations of a battle-field (constituted by news photographs, mostly from Bosnia war). Each time he pulls on pulling the trigger, which progressively reveals itself as that of an automatic weapon, peals off a part of «the skin of the world» : the visual field encompassed by the view-finder subtracted, vanishes out of the world. An investigation of our trouble relationship to war representations.
Software: Patrick Bouchaud, David Nahon & Kimi Bishop
Production of the Future lab of the Ars Electronica Center in Linz With the help of ZA production, Barco, and Silicon Graphics France
1998, France
