Game Art: Robert Lendrum's "Avatar" (2009-2010)
Robert Lendrum, Avatar, documentation of performance, 2010
"Avatar is a new media and performance-based work where the audience is invited to take complete control of their own performer via a video game remote control device. Live performers are transformed into robotic puppets that respond to their user's instructions and desires. If actors should be treated like cattle, as Hitchcock suggested, thenAvatar provides the audience with the opportunity to do so. By remediating the avatar from a state of digital embodiment into a physical body, my project explores the tensions in mixed reality environments and interactions. In this hybrid environment, new codes of engagement must be learned through experimentation and experience." (Robert Lendrum)
link: Robert Lendrum
Submitted by Matteo Bittanti