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Behind the Screen I am on the Real Earth is a mixed reality performance using new interactive technology, phones and motion capture.
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The audience are invited to watch the CGI film Feel My Metaverse as a live event that seamlessly extends into a mixed reality performance. The performer, Sophie Mars, wears a motion capture suit that connects to her avatar ‘O’, a protagonist in the film Feel My Metaverse. The narrative and gameplay of the performance requires the audience (the players) to work together with ‘O’ (the performer) to bring the forest, ‘Pando’, back to life. ‘Pando’ is the main protagonist in the film Feel My Metaverse.
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As the film draws to a close a virtual assistant instructs the audience to visit mobile site yourcontroller.live. The site, acting as the participant’s controller during the performance, features several buttons that enable the collective progression in the game. In order to bring ‘Pando’ back to life, the audience must complete six levels. During each level the audiences interactions create reactive soundscapes that collectively emanate from user’s individual phones whilst simultaneously triggering changes in the live projected visuals. These interactions create dramatic changes of a cyclical nature from creating a waterfall, growing trees, starting a forest fire and making it rain. For example, during Level Two, the audience interaction would activate the growth of trees in the live visuals whilst a sound effect of trees growing emanated from their phones.
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Behind the Screen I am on the Real Earth explores new technologies and audience participation. It comments on how a single user interaction, pressing a button, can change the environment with a god like power with little awareness of its potential consequences. This contrasts the collective aspect of the piece as the audience are required to work together to progress through the game in the hope of creating progression and empowerment. It symbolises how individual micro actions can cause macro effects; whether these have devastating consequences or progressive empowerment.
