THE SPECIAL PLAYER is a fully interactive environment. Involving a sophisticated responsive motion tracking technique, professional dancers, DJs and the public, THE SPECIAL PLAYER explores a massively disquieting conspirative narration revolutionizing the concept of augmented reality and sense of self.
Basic predicate: your physical being and your movements become part of the process.
A perfectly crafted show brings all the visitors to the knowledge of basic principles behind the scene. Two contemporary dancers take part of the interactive environment and reveal some secret aspects of the game.
Now it's up to the public, taking over the performers, to become the performers themselves. THE SPECIAL PLAYER lets itself be played by special players: each visitor has his own place to express himself, in an immersive and synergetic visual and audio feedback.
When the time of personal exploration through the gates of digital auras and complex interactions finally ends, the DJ pulls up the volume and starts a blast of live music performance. Meanwhile, visuals are still in control of the public: they won't lose it till the dawn.
THE SPECIAL PLAYER is a result of an interdisciplinary cooperation between international choreographs, contemporary dancers, the crossover interactive group 02L > OUTSIDE STANDING LEVEL, the Berlin-based Picamotics / ATTOMAAKU-Platform and libavg, an open-source high-level multimedia platform with a focus on interactive installations. It has been supported by c-base Berlin, planb and several external artists and technicians.
THE SPECIAL PLAYER show has been performed for the first time in TRANSMEDIALE.08 : CONSPIRE festival, hosted by c-base Raumstation unter Berlin.
Sound tales, conceptualized and performed by THE SHAIDON EFFECT, add a powerful and synergetic substrate to the project. Music accompanies each moment of the event, and in each flavour the project is presented with.
The two most relevant variants are:
A number of technologies have been used for this project. The two most relevant are: libavg, a powerful and highly integrated multimedia platform and Processing, a well known open source production tool.
Beneath that, THE SPECIAL PLAYER is really thankful to Ubuntu Linux, Python, GNU/FSF, Korg, CNMAT for OSC protocol.
