Zeitgenossen
Zelko Wiener &
Ursula Hentschlaeger
Outer Space IP
2001 - 2003
Documentation
The idea underlying the Outer Space IP came as a
result of the special nature of the year 2001 and can be
understood as a reference to the epoch-making science-fiction
movie "2001 - A Space Odyssey". We have given up
control with traditional menus through the use of the avatar Pantha and for
the first time, much attention was paid to the inclusion of
voices.
IDEA
YATOO
ESCAPE BRASIL
SILENCE
WEBART
SHORTCUTS
Media usually present two contrary ideas
of ”the future”. For instance, extra-terrestrial
life is imagined as being either mellow and wise, or brutal and
destructive. We constructed Pantha, a hybrid being; artificially, but with male
traits. He comments on the events and through his constant
floating he clarifies the theme of the work - it is all about
human disorientation in an environment characterised by
technological feasibility.
The space station is determined by human
conditions. On the one hand there is a desire to comprehend the
meaning of outer space and the encasing universe per se, on the
other hand there is this condition of being lost in that
environment.
WORLDWATCH
SKYWATCH
INFORMATION
