+ VIRTUA SCULPTURE for THE TOYBOX CD 1995

Commissioned for the Toybox CD-ROM, presented at the Video Positive '95 Festival, Liverpool. The work was premiered at the Tate Gallery, Liverpool on 28.4.1995. Commissioned by Moviola with support from Arts Council of England (Visual Arts Publications)



The work references the Sega games series Virtua Fighting and Virtua Racing. I was trying to speculate on the coming together of the worlds of Art, Culture and Video Games through shared tools and technologies, to speculate on Art production of the future.

The work was made for the TOYBOX CD-ROM, which was showcased at the Video Positive Festival in Liverpool, 1995. The CD was premiered at the Tate Liverpool. Virtua Sculpture consists of six virtual environments navigable in real-time from a CD-ROM. They were each constructed in Virtus Walkthrough and then put into a Macromedia Director Application to run from the CD.

Each of the six forms are constructed from the digital equivalent of found objects - using 3D clip-art libraries within the Virtus programme from collections of domestic furniture, street furniture, office furniture and industrial kitchenware. They are categorised and then either stacked one on top of the other to make totems or they are placed together on a surface plane to create a tableaux. Together they form sets of Future Relics - obselete and untraceable through their encoding.



+ TOYBOX CD Cover

+ Video Positive Brochure