Project Number
- 88
Title
- Softworld 2.1: The Imperial Message
Description
- Anti-wa" game inspired by the Kafka parable, "An Imperial Message."
Contact
- Janine Cirincione
Affiliation
- Softworlds
Address
- 299 Pearl Street, #6C
- New York, New York 10038
- +1.212.571.0124
- +1.212.571.0124 fax
- New York, New York 10038
WWW
Year
- 1994
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 94 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- The Imperial Message is an interactive virtual reality experience - a new medium somewhere between architecture, film, and game."
- "Softworld 2.1 is an 'anti-war' game inspired by the Kafka parable, 'An Imperial Message,' which deals with the vast distance between the Emperor and the Individual. The program attempts to extend this sense of scale to present inherent conflicts between the individual and the state and between the unspoken, secret 'Law' and its corrupted representation."
Sight
- graphics workstation, Virtual Research head-mounted display, Sense8 simulation
Sound
- Crystal River Engineering Beachtron audio
Touch
- Polhemus tracking
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 5 - Established, Finished
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 307 - art / commentary
Secondary
- 201 - virtual environment
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
- This work was designed and developed as an Artist-in-Residency award at the Wexner Center for the Arts.
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