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.

VIDEO CLIP - XYRAY NIGHT CLUB
5:00 mins | 30MB
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