Some More World Games: Virtual Reality Hackathon

Some World Games, designed by Farzin Farzin, is an immersive installation as part of Closed Worlds, an exhibition curated by Lydia Kallipoliti that presents 41 historical prototypes of closed resource regeneration systems. Visitors will be guided along a continuous loop by custom designed virtual reality headsets suspended from a kinetic track. Through the installation, you will explore the historical content of the exhibition in a virtual visual and aural field. This will be a day-long hackathon utilizing this interface to invite coders, game designers, architects, artists, filmmakers, and others to collaborate and create new worlds. You will be asked to develop tools for virtual exploration and convert kinetic energy into virtual energy to generate both new agencies within systems of display and new engagements with control objects. Basic digital assets will be provided in advance. Teams are free to create any type of content they wish 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. At the end of the day there will be a quick Q&A session followed by a wine reception!