show.Rooms_virtual
show.Rooms_virtual is a virtual animated archive.
show.Rooms_virtual builds on show.Rooms_global events 2019-2021 and includes realizations in Austria, Croatia, Bangladesh and Iran. The events aimed at a programmatic visual and discursive treatment of a selected marginalized topic, which was determined and selected by the participating art groups in Croatia, Iran and Bangladesh. The interventions were shown in the respective cities for several days over a period of one week. Subsequently, parts of the project were invited to Austria in order to facilitate an intercultural dialog. Central to this is the confrontation with the Austrian field of discourse on the topic, with regional artists, NGOs and researchers offering contributions.
Due to the interventionist approach of show.Rooms events, which take place in public and semi-public spaces (empty, disused commercial spaces). The empty spaces are left again as event venues after the event period. show.Rooms_virtuell makes it possible to keep the spaces "open" and visit them. The visualization of the selected themes, the participating people, interviews and publications remain virtually accessible to the public.
The animated graphics were conceptualized by Katrin Ackerl Konstantin and programmed by Wade Olsen and Philipp Luftensteiner. The source materials were illustrated by Claudia Six. show.Rooms_virtuell was made possible as an artistic research project "Mapping the Unseen" for interested people worldwide via the Internet and can be used as a platform: The respective user is invited to explore and comment on the rooms using animated 3D graphics and a blue cube simulation.
The concept of the animation is that something becomes visible in its phenomenological sense through the moment of encounter. Before that, it remains in an uncovered, invisible mode. Only the interaction brings the project and its artifacts to the surface - how and to what extent they are made visible can be seen as an inherent part of mapping.
Mapping the Unseen was funded by: FWF (AR 444-GBL), Austrian Science Fund, KWF Carinthian Economic Promotion Fund, Province of Carinthia.
Supported and hosted by the University of Klagenfurt.
