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Floating Gardens is an online gathering, located in various nodes within the physical territory. It's an interactive 3D space which creates a neutral ground, where people can gather and explore through navigation in a zero gravity environment, chatting anonymously with others in realtime. The Garden is rendered stereoscopically to augment the three dimensional sensation of its inhabitants. Floating Gardens is then a space technology that provides the possibility for encounter and exchange, establishing a fertile soil for surface democratization. The idea is to place the nodes in such locations in which stratified structural differences will produce emergent communicative phenomena. Santa Martha penitentiary, the World Trade Center in Mexico City, and Museo de Arte Alameda hosted the Floating Gardens simultaneously at Transitio MX02.
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click to enlarge : presentation pix: Gregory Allen © for Transitio_MX 02, Centro Nacional de las Artes
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The system runs on Linux or Windows, using the Blender Game Engine for 3D rendering and BZoo API for chat. It requires Python 2.5 and a server backend.
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Design and Interaction: Luis Hernandez Galvan, Anne-Marie Schleiner
Chat Implementation: Eric Werkhoven
Santa Martha Acatitla Coordination: Eder Castillo
WTC Coordination: Rene Hayashi
Museum Coordination: Anne-Marie Schleiner, Luis Hernandez Galvan
Video: Anne-Marie Schleiner, Luis Hernandez Galvan
credits
This project was supported by Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CONACULTA - FONCA), Centro Nacional de las Artes, and Centro Multimedia. Commissioned for the Programa de Apoyos a la Producción e Investigación en Arte y Medios. Presented at the (in)comunidades exhibition, TRANSITIO_MX 02 Festival of Electronic Arts and Video.
Thanx to PA61 for the facilities during Jardines' installment.