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May 12, 2004
Knifeandfork Presents The Case at Kulturhuset
Artists from Knifeandfork discuss their work on the project The Case at Kulturhuset.
Knifeandfork is an international artist collaborative with an appetite for social computing and cutting-edge technologies. Members Brian House, Sue Huang, and Eugene Kim are masters students in Art and Techonology at Innovative Design at Chalmers University of Technology, in cooperation with the Faculty of Fine Arts at Gothenburg University and IT University of Gothenburg.
The Case at Kulturhuset is an interactive art installation built specifically for the Kulturhuset in central Stockholm, Sweden. The installation is about the subjectivity of narrative and experience, and the audience is invited to participate by playing the part of a private eye in a nonlinear drama.
Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and wireless Bluetooth communication enable a dynamic narrative structure: transmitters throughout Kulturhuset trigger scenes on the PDA screen as you move through the real-world setting of the fictional story. By uncovering more information, you are able to delve more deeply into the mystery.
The Case at Kulturhuset draws from the aesthetics and characters typical to hard-boiled pulp-fiction literature, comics, and film noir. As a detective, you set out to discover clues surrounding the death of a Mr. Jack Down. Characters include the famous actress Loretta Load, the mysterious stranger Magnus Magnusson, and an observant bartender, each of which gives testimony from a particularly slanted perspective. The plot structure is based on that of Rashomon, the classic film directed by Akira Kurosawa which introduced the use of multiple and conflicting storylines centered around the same series of events.
Posted by Sue at May 12, 2004 05:15 PM