Object B VS

ARTIST

exonemo

YEAR

2007

COUNTRY

Japan

MEDIA

Robotic Gaming Installation

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A modified first-person shooting game is controlled by a player and a kinetic object made of power tools and computer input devices. The power tools are automatically operated to pushing mice, keyboards and a pen tablet that controls a avatar in the game. At the control terminal on the other side of the screen, a player can join in the networked game world. Player meets with the avatar=object and tries to fight to conquer the game world but never succeeds. The only thing player can do is try to communicate the system of the game and the real world.

Biography

"exonemo" is an art unit formed by SEMBO and YAE in 1996. They created many experimental web projects which one can go through on the Web. They also present some spatial installations, live performances using custom software/device and also producing some events such as dorkbot-tokyo. They got the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica in the net category in 2006. Lives and works in "TOKYO" and "EXONEMO.COM".