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The Worlds First Transgenic Virtual Pet Game. Are you ready to manage the worker of the future? Biotech innovation meets corporate creativity and gives birth to a new class of virtual pet: the Metapet. Your challenge: discover the right balance between a firm hand and a gentle coax without ever losing sight of the bottom line. But here's a word of advice: treat your Metapet with care. Heedless actions may come back to haunt you when you least expect it!
[domestic] is a 3D action game environment hack exploring conceptions of space through varying subject positions. Users take on a particular viewpoint and see the world through that viewpoint, but the way they see the same space changes depending on the character they've become. The perception in the virtual environment is entirely constituted with text. By limiting VR experiences to text environments, participants discover the gap between representation and the reading or perception of an environment.
How is meaning constructed in interactive, immersive electronic spaces? How sign systems operate in these virtual worlds is changed by their transmutational nature, immediacy, and manipulation of human perception. The Artefact project explores the language of computer-mediated space as it is expressed in games - its unique internal logic and properties.
Observatine showing at Plaything marks its 5th anniversary. It's a tool that is used for looking at seemingly banal spaces from an observational perspective. That is seeing, one step removed. You relinquish control and simply look. I want people to easily see a place from that perspective, so they can tell their stories about it. Topological vision is designed for cautious observation: you can check out a situation and see what it is before taking action- or no action. So the intention of the work is mediated contemplation.
Feng Mengbo is an artist with an international reputation who arose out of a Political Pop movement in China, during the late 80's and early 90's, when many artists were using deconstructive techniques and Western iconography to comment on contemporary China. Although he considers himself more game artist his work has never been exhibited in China because of his connection with Political Pop. Nevertheless he continues to live and work in Beijing. Since 1996 Mengbo has worked with computers, not as a passive player, but making CD-Roms and games. The first CD-Rom piece by Mengbo was My Private Album in 1996, which is an interactive family photo album. Following that he has made a series of interactive multimedia works using the structures of commercial software with Chinese themes. As a young Chinese artist whose work uses the the styles and structures of contemporary electronic games. He combines this with cultural influences of China, from traditional opera legends to more recent stories from the Cultural Revolution and Hong Kong action cinema. The icons from Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution and those of Hong Kong cinema both use a romantic, heroic style to tell moral or political tales. 
Quilted Thought Organ is a work which can be used both live and as an installation. Delire argues that as a conceptual territory, this is just another well-trodden foray into synaesthesia, although as an instrument it is very flexible and demands a very different way of thinking about a performance. The work commits itself to various visual meaning systems, where a composition is distributed across an iconographic and syntactical field. Quilted Thought Organ operates via a musical interface and objects in the game environment trigger audio events. Movement within the game space becomes a compositional tool, a real-time audio performance environment. 
In REZ the player travels into the cyberspace of the project-K network on a mission to reawaken Eden. They must gain access to each area and layer level of the system, destroying any viruses and firewalls they encounter. Rez is a fast-action shooter that takes you deep into the world's computer network. The Project K Network has recently been upgraded to handle the rapid expansion of the information age and the core, known as Eden, holds the most advanced artificial intelligence the world has ever seen. Unfortunately, Eden cannot handle the ability to create her own thoughts and buckles under the pressure in an existential breakdown. She is lost deep inside the system, and you're the only one that can bring her back online, saving the world from utter chaos. You must blast complex viruses, unlock passwords, and destroy firewall bosses as you search for Eden. Each stage is in a constant state of flux dependent on your shooting techniques, which ultimately control the music and colors of your environment. The deeper you get into the dreamlike cyber world of Rez on PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, your form will evolve or devolve depending on your progress, and the wire-frame environments give way to rich textured worlds. 
through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
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| Firstdraft Gallery is assisted by the Commonwealth Government's Young and Emerging Artists Initiative through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. |
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