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23/5/2002

Kali

Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Chicago

The Block Museum of Art presents ''KALI'' The Goddess of the Millennium by Franz Fischnaller; From May 24 through June 23, 2002 in conjunction with the Center for Art and Technology symposium, Art, Technology and Spirituality. Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, Chicago.USA.

Kali is an intense, user-driven, multileveled virtual-reality piece that incorporates advanced technology to create a major interactive art installation.

It is a comprehensive experience in the new language of interactive design, aesthetic interpretation of digital information and use of visual design in the virtual environment. Through Kali, the author explores a fusion of digital media, culture, the arts, literature, myth, and cinema.

It has been developed a very intensely aesthetic interpretation of the content and of the visual design in the virtual environments; combining the real and the imaginary, the Orient and the Occident, the cosmos and the earth, nature and the city, negative and positive, and cause and effect. In large part the quality of Kali lays in the integration of the media&technology and in the originality of the concept. It is a compendium of forms and content of mythical elements and ancestral memories that extends into the digital era with relevance to the 21st century.

Kali content is a stereo virtual reality environment associating video and interactive animation. It is articulated by Kali's inner world and Kali's external world. Kali's inner world is the world of causes, the decision-making and is represented by the virtual reality environment. Kali's external world is the world of effects and is represented by the multimedia/digital ambiences projected on the external screens The visitor is able to generate situations (causes within the VR worlds) of which, is possible to see the corresponding consequences (effects) in real time, in Kali' s External world.

The first version of Kali was produced for a three-screen virtual-reality projection system and included an interactive sculpture. The second version was adapted to the CAVE® virtual-reality theater and other VR display systems. The Installation presented in the Alsdorf gallery integrates a Virtual Reality Display system and two-screen projection.

Kali was produced ad hoc by F.A.B.R.I.CATORS for the exhibition of the Millennium of the city of Berlin, coordinated by the Berliner Festspiele. ''Seven Hills ... Images and Signs of the 21st Century'', Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin .
The exhibition theme was ''archaeology of the knowledge,'' and it showcased works of art associated with elements of strength, such as global and cosmic communication, and new alliances between Art and Science. It posed questions and project answers, such as: How will the human species evolve during the next Millennium and what turn can the human, vegetal and cosmic existence possibly take?

Franz Fischnaller. Prof at The University of Illinois at Chicago,-
Director of F.A.B.R.I.CATORS, Italy - http//www.fabricat.com -
fabricat@galactica.it

The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
Northwestern University 1967 South Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208

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