Flintridge / Man appears on the Holodeck

A room in an isolated mountain hut in Tessin. A storm cuts the village off from the rest of the environment (world?). As the water rises, the wind starts rushing in the mountains. Then what? A new community settles, filled with new perspectives and imagination. F. Wiesel develops a new »digiloge« theatre machine, in which Max Frisch’s »Man in the Holocene« serves as starting point for a multidimensional experience, all within a 16-square-meter room. Raw equipment, 70s computer-game logic and VR-elements immerse one in a tale about environmental challenges, humanity’s role in the future and the power of imagination.

 

The installation is based on Max Frisch’s 1979-published tale, and the text-based computer-game »Colossal Cave Adventure« by William Crowther, which appeared in 1976 and was one of the first VR-simulations of its time - coincidentally contemporary, or?

The installation connects the use of classic theatre backdrops with game design. Through the VR-glasses and their senses the public enter a fantasy world - the landscape of a post-human(ity) future.