Some More World Games: Virtual Reality Hackathon

SOME MORE WORLD GAMES

Some World Games, designed by Farzin Farzin, is an immersive installation currently on view as part of Closed Worlds, an exhibition curated by Lydia Kallipoliti that presents 41 historical prototypes of closed resource regeneration systems.

In Some World Games, visitors are guided along a continuous loop by custom designed virtual reality headsets suspended from a kinetic track. Through the installation, participants explore the historical content of the exhibition in a virtual visual and aural field. Positioning points of view across multiple scales, Some World Games conflates duration and distance into an infinite loop.

Some More World Games, a day-long hackathon, utilizes this interface to invite coders, game designers, architects, artists, filmmakers, and others to collaborate and create new worlds. By producing tools for virtual exploration, the hackathon seeks to convert kinetic energy into virtual energy, and to generate both new agencies within systems of display and new engagements with control objects.

To assist with world creation, basic digital assets will be provided in advance. Teams will be assigned at the beginning of the day, and are free to create content in any manner, resulting in a single virtual reality experience that will be uploaded to each headset. At the end of the hackathon, each team will have ten minutes to frame and present its work. The evening will conclude with a Q&A session, followed by a wine reception.

Schedule

11:00 - 11:15 - Introductions with lead hackers; tour of installation

11:15 - 11:30 - Review of assets. Game plan / team assembly

11:30 - 2:30 - Breakout hack/world creation

2:30 - 3:00 - Break

3:00 - 5:30 - Upload projects to headsets. Test on track. Group troubleshoot

5:30 - 6:00 - Break

6:00 - 8:00 - Public presentation followed by Q&A, Wine Reception

Hackers

Kaho Abe

Ezio Blasseti

Nick Fox-Geig

Tims Gardner

Farzin Lotfi-Jam

Ramsey Nasser

Daniel Perlin

Dan Teayoung

George Valdes + team