RUNNERS:
Everquest (1999-2000)
Online game performance/ interactive computer installation
TRT – 180 days
RUNNERS is a networked computer installation presenting three projection
screens, each depicting a character borrowed from and operating within
the virtual space of EverQuest a highly sophisticated virtual reality
game (the 1999 version used the game Dark Vengeance). Using a custom made
“Triple Mouse” participants can, and must control all three
characters, who simultaneously navigate a separate area of the game world,
respectively. The player is forced to make a decision about which character
to embody and which to abandon, while a varying live web-audience of thousands
follows his or her performance within the online game.
LINKS:
Everquest -
http://everquest.station.sony.com/
"A
Touch of Medieval" on magic and computer games -
http://www.c-level.cc/~eddo/Stern_TOME.html
SummonstoSurrender - http://stern.aen.walkerart.org