Interactive VR installation, Computer, specific VR program
Fly Simulator is a VR software specifically developed for Ars Electronica 2018 and Speculum Artium in Trbovlje.
It is a simulation of a few thousand flies that organize themselves into swarms, creating interesting patterns when users wear the 3D head set. The user’s head position influences the swarming of the flies and as the virtual space is based on a non-Cartesian world with unusual perspectives and timing, the user feels immersed in a strange world where she feels like she has become a fly herself.
Bios
Christa Sommerer (AT) and Laurent Mignonneau (AT) are internationally renowned media artists, researchers and pioneers of interactive art. They are professors and head the Interface Cultures master program at University of Art and Design in Linz Austria. They previously held positions as Associate Professors at the IAMAS International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences in Gifu, Japan and as Researchers and Artistic Directors at the ATR Media Integration and Communications Research Lab in Kyoto Japan. They were Visiting Researchers at the MIT CAVS in Cambridge US, the Beckmann Institute in Champaign Urbana, IL, US and artist in residence at the NTT-InterCommunication Center in Tokyo. Sommerer was an Obel Guest Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark and at the Tsukuba University Empowerment Informatics Studio in Japan and Laurent Mignonneau was Chaire International Guest Professor at the Université Paris 8 in Paris, France.
