ELECTRICAL-DARKNESS
Interactive fiction 2024
Located in a Garden-City, in-between a suburban nature and a world-city, Electrical-darkness is a place where
different perceptions can be experienced through a body interface implemented under the epidermis. In this
ultra-sensitive metaverse, the body is the site of all kinds of self-fictions.
The epidermal interface has been designed on the basis of hypersensitivity phenomena. Coupled with an internal
eye that allows these phenomena to be visually re-translated, the interface enables multiple levels of perception,
time distortion and the infiltration of different bodily materials. In this hyper-intuitive metaverse, every
form of individuality is plural. Electrical-darkness is a metaverse constructed like a set traversed by immobile
speeds, where perception leads to explorations with fluid contours and where the body is subjected to varying
degrees of emotional variation. Mutualism, symbiotic mutations, processes of perceptual multiplication and
emotional hyper-activity form a framework in which to insert and dilute oneself. Electrical-darkness is an experiment
in the dematerialisation of the self in exponential fictions.
In this first-person game, the aim is to explore the Garden-City and discover the many functions of the body
interface. The Garden-City is made up of different platforms that can only be accessed through levels of attention
generated by the body interface. However, there are no instructions on how to use the interface at the
start of the experience.
With the support of ADAGP (France) and Gastatelier Gleis70 (Switzerland)
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FESTIVALS : DN[A] Festival des arts numériques (Grenoble, France) | ADAF, Simulacra (Athens, Greece) 2025 | Rencontres Traverse Vidéo (Toulouse, France) 2025 | Internationales Digitalkunst Festival (Stuttgart, Germany) 2024 | SIMULTAN Festival, Desire for the useless (Timisoara, Romania) 2024 | Fragments of interests (Košice city park, Slovakia) 2024 | Projekt DUO - Videoinstallation im 6.Stock (Zurich, Switzerland) 2024