Game Art: Walter Langelaar's "Paralevel" (2011)

"'paralevel' is a series of alterations which add a game level to a structure or building, which  exists besides and beyond its physical architecture. This experiential  modification provokes the viewer to shift between a temporal and spatial realisation of the surrounding space.

The project behaves as a 'strange loop' which traverses the real and  the virtual through the use of videogame technology, augmented with a  live video feed from a webcam. The installation responds to the  physical gallery space by mirroring and perpetuating it. At the same  time the viewers’ positions and perspectives of the exhibition space are contradicted by the projected scene before them. This results in the destabilisation -- if only briefly -- of the spatial experience. An  unsettling interaction between architecture and its visual perception  unfolds." (Walter Langelaar)

Link: Walter Langelaar

Related: n0tb0t (2009)

Submitted by Matteo Bittanti