selectparks - DEVMAP by Workspace Unlimited

DEVMAP is a virtual world created with a modification of the Quake3 game engine. The project explores new zones of real-time communication and virtual experiences, while reworking and reprocessing textures, sounds, images and flows of information from last DEAF04. DEVMAP was created as a commissioned work for the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival (DEAF04). Workspace Unlimited http://www.workspace-unlimited.org

The DEVMAP project is feeded with new content throughout the duration of the DEAF04 festival. New textures and pictures are captured from events and artworks and are then mapped onto the virtual spaces. Three visitors can visit DEVMAP simultaneously. Visitors influence their world when navigating through the virtual spaces. Depending on the routes they take and the works they visit, the environment, as well as the body of their avatar, will look different each visit and each day. The visitors share the same virtual space, see each other and can chat with each other but every visitor sees his world in a unique way depending on the personal choices they have made in the virtual world.