A Unique Event on September 5 and 6
BT, Illuminations Television and the University of Nottingham are delighted to announce four performances only of OUT OF THIS WORLD.
OUT OF THIS WORLD is an experimental performance version of Inhabited Television, a new media form which combines broadcasting and shared virtual worlds.
A truly participatory game show, OUT OF THIS WORLD is set entirely within a 3D graphical environment representing an alien planet in outer space. Two teams of audience-controlled avatars race against each other to reach the only fuel tank which can take just one of them back into space. But along the way the teams are confronted with challenging tasks like squig flipping and the harvesting of hanging fish. Thirty minutes of fast-paced action will be combined with the chance to see how Inhabited Television is created and the opportunity to discuss the project and its prospects with the creators.
In addition, OUT OF THIS WORLD features the interactive Wobblevision system which will be used by the audience to save just one of the avatars.
OUT OF THIS WORLD will be performed at 6.30pm and 8.30pm on Saturday September 5 and Sunday September 6.
The venue is The Green Room in Manchester, England
54-56 Whitworth Street West, Manchester M1 5WW.
Box Office Telephone: 0161 950 5900
Tickets are £5, £2.50 for concessions.
The presentation of OUT OF THIS WORLD is part of Revolution, a programme of exhibitions and events mounted by FACT alongside ISEA'98, the Ninth International Symposium of Electronic Art. OUT OF THIS WORLD is unlikely ever to be staged in this form again.
Extending the producers' earlier experiments with Inhabited Television - the poetry event at NOW'96; "The Mirror", created alongside BBC2's series "The Net", and "Heaven and Hell - Live", the world's first broadcast from within a shared virtual world - OUT OF THIS WORLD holds out the prospect of the box in the corner never being the same again.
OUT OF THIS WORLD is a collaborative research project created by British Telecom, Illuminations Television and the University of Nottingham as part of eRENA, a project of the European Commission's i3 long-term research programme. Additional research support has been provided by EPSRC.
For further details, please contact john@illumin.co.uk
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