acmipark is multiplayer virtual world. Created by selectparks (artists Julian Oliver, Chad Chatterton, and Andrea Blundell), it was designed to extend the physical spaces of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) at Melbourne’s Federation Square into the realms of virtual space. It was produced using a game engine as its base, and worked up from the real architectural designs produced for Federation Square by Lab Architecture Studio.
Designed as a soundpark, it is a musical instrument which can be played collectively, and, like Federation Square itself, it was envisaged as a kind of public space waiting for a community to define its meaning.
It was conceived as an experiment in the design of a virtual public space. It is an embodiment of the idea that we are moving our public space into the realm of the virtual. By using a model of a real world public space combined with the collaborative possibilities of the soundpark and the kinaesthetic pleasures of moving through a beautiful virtual place, selectparks hoped to build upon traditional concepts of ‘public’ places.
[Source: Helen Stuckey, 2006 https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1561/1476 last accessed 20/10/2020]
acmipark
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ACMI Identifier
B1004596
Language
English
Audience classification
G
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Computer game/Game
Installation
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interactive software, computers, monitors, colour and audio