The Gate (Hole in Space, Reloaded)

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About The Gate (Hole in Space, Reloaded)

RL & SL pictures from The Gate

13/11/09 - 14/11/09
iMAL Center for Digital Cultures and Technology, Brussels (Belgium);
Odyssey Contemporary Art and Performance, Second Life (Odyssey 122/45/25)

04/10/07 - 07/10/07
Fantastic Illusions, Broelmuseum, Kortrijk (Belgium);
Odyssey Contemporary Art and Performance, Second Life (Odyssey 122/45/25)

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The Gate is an installation connecting real life and Second Life. A junction point, a door between two worlds and two representation spaces. Or, basically, a simple window between both worlds where real users and SL users can see and meet each other.
A view of the SL Gate is permanently projected in the real life venue; when an avatar comes in front of The Gate, it is visible in the public space; when one arrives physically in front of the door in the public space, (s)he can interact with the SL user on the other side.

The result is a kind of happening where the virtuality of SL is transferred in the physicality of our public space and vice-versa; a stage for performance and interaction, something between a break-dance platform, an inter-dimensional portal and a peep show through parallel universes.

THE GATE (or Hole in Space, Reloaded)
Yannick Antoine, Yves Bernard (BE)
With the collaboration of: Domenico Quaranta (IT), Sugar Seville (SL)
Opening Performance: Second Front

http://imal.org/TheGate/