John Walter The Fourth Wall
The Fourth Wall by John Walter. I saw this VR experience whilst up in Aberdeen for the Look Again festival back in June and I just loved it. I was extremely anxious as you are exposed in this massive court yard of the Marischal College in the centre of Aberdeen. Computer chairs lined up in the centre. You are given a chaperone who takes you to your seat and guides you through what will happen and at any time you can 'tap out' as it were. Then the VR headset is put on your head and away you go.
At first I was a little taken back by it. It was so completely realistic and jumping out at you. Immersive is the word. I had never experienced art this way before. All my senses were being tested. There was spoken work, written word, digital images flying at you and music. The imagery is in a 360 format so you can look all around you, up above and below included and it chops and changes throughout so you wish you could watch it all again so see all the other details.
Once you have had the experience and have "might as well face it your addicted to self" stuck in your head you come away feeling a rush. His way of describing it is the experience allows you to let go of inhibitions and come out of it smiling and feeling refreshed. You can't see anyone so you just change and relax and react in a more natural way.
The piece was commissioned for the festival which includes imagery of Aberdeen and makes reference to an outbreak of typhoid in the 1960s through Fray Bentos Corned Beef. Little details I wouldn't have picked up on unless I read about it. It was also purely full of him and his interests in animation and digital design, collage, painting and sculpture.
I really love the idea of creating a sort of digital art work and immersing yourself in it momentarily. But this could also apply to physical art in the sense that you could have imagery projecting and sounds or music playing and have touch sensory object which would immerse you in a more physical sense. It makes you think about how digital has evolved from more analogue techniques.
You can experience the 360 video on your phone by clicking HERE. Just play and move your phone around. Or you can watch on a computer and move the video about with your mouse. For a full experience use a VR headset and the Vimeo converts the video into a VR video.
At first I was a little taken back by it. It was so completely realistic and jumping out at you. Immersive is the word. I had never experienced art this way before. All my senses were being tested. There was spoken work, written word, digital images flying at you and music. The imagery is in a 360 format so you can look all around you, up above and below included and it chops and changes throughout so you wish you could watch it all again so see all the other details.
Once you have had the experience and have "might as well face it your addicted to self" stuck in your head you come away feeling a rush. His way of describing it is the experience allows you to let go of inhibitions and come out of it smiling and feeling refreshed. You can't see anyone so you just change and relax and react in a more natural way.
The piece was commissioned for the festival which includes imagery of Aberdeen and makes reference to an outbreak of typhoid in the 1960s through Fray Bentos Corned Beef. Little details I wouldn't have picked up on unless I read about it. It was also purely full of him and his interests in animation and digital design, collage, painting and sculpture.
I really love the idea of creating a sort of digital art work and immersing yourself in it momentarily. But this could also apply to physical art in the sense that you could have imagery projecting and sounds or music playing and have touch sensory object which would immerse you in a more physical sense. It makes you think about how digital has evolved from more analogue techniques.
You can experience the 360 video on your phone by clicking HERE. Just play and move your phone around. Or you can watch on a computer and move the video about with your mouse. For a full experience use a VR headset and the Vimeo converts the video into a VR video.
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