XY-RAY 2: Avatar Nightclub An 8-bit pixel graphic nightclub, a bunch of glow sticks and you as a skeleton avatar creates a playful artwork where real space meets Habo Hotel meets second life meets Art. Its a social thing! Avatar Nightclub is an interactive artwork where artists Rhys Turner & Melissa Ramos use colour glow sticks to turn the audience into an a skeleton avatar nightclub scene. The work becomes an interpretive mirror of actual and virtual space presenting the audience as part of the work while transforming their identity, presence and place. Each coloured stick is tracked by a camera onto a projected screen as a different skeleton avatar. Then they dance! The work explores and questions the difference between online and offline social networks and alternative interface devices such as colour tracking, online video game and chat while commenting on club culture and audio visual performance. The work, now in its second permeation, was originally exhibited for the Australian Center for Photography in 2008 in the show Avatar: The New You curated by Malcolm Smith.



XY-RAY 2: Avatar Nightclub

An 8-bit pixel graphic nightclub, a bunch of glow sticks and you as a skeleton avatar creates a playful artwork where real space meets Habo Hotel meets second life meets Art. Its a social thing!

Avatar Nightclub is an interactive artwork where artists Rhys Turner & Melissa Ramos use colour glow sticks to turn the audience into an a skeleton avatar nightclub scene. The work becomes an interpretive mirror
of actual and virtual space presenting the audience as part of the work while transforming their identity, presence and place.

Each coloured stick is tracked by a camera onto a projected screen as a different skeleton avatar. Then they dance! The work explores and questions the difference between online and offline social networks
and alternative interface devices such as colour tracking, online video game and chat while commenting on club culture and audio visual performance.

The work, now in its second permeation, was originally exhibited for the Australian Center for Photography in 2008 in the show Avatar: The New You curated by Malcolm Smith.

XY-Ray plays as part of
At The Vanishing Point @ Oxford Art Factory
Thursday, May 28 at 8:00pm


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© 2009 Rhys Turner and Melissa Ramos