Swarming Lounge

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Swarming Lounge uses the built-in camera in your IOS device to create a mixed reality.


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Swarming Lounge is a participative, body-based, mixed-reality installation-performance grounded on an intelligent virtual environment: an interactive composition system in which visitors and dancer/performers interact with virtual characters displayed on the audience’s smart-phones. This application allows visitors to the "Swarming Lounge" installation to access its virtually augmented dimension, enabling them to display anthropomorphic characters evolving in a virtual scenario on their own mobile devices. Once equipped with the app, the user is able to access and interact with the sequence of the scenario’s events, designed in connection with the exhibition venue, where live dancer-performers are posted. In an intertwining of real and virtual situations, as well as in an inter-mixing of the two, visitors experience multiple shifting degrees of presences and micro-narratives.

A project by kondition pluriel

Concept and artistic direction: Martin Kusch and Marie-Claude Poulin
Choreography: Marie-Claude Poulin, assistance Audrey Rochette
Media environment: Martin Kusch, Johannes Hucek
Installation design: Institute for cultural policy
Game-Engine programming: Johannes Hucek
3D-Models: Georg Schmidhuber
Dancer/performers: Audrey Rochette and David Campbell
With the participation of local performers

Campina Milk Factory, Eindhoven, NL / ROBOT LOVE EXPO
Installation: September 15 - December 2, 2018
Live performance: 14, 15, 16 Sept. and 15, 16, 17 Nov. 2018