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The Travels of Mariko Horo
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Source: Tamiko Thiel
Tamiko Thiel
The Travels of Mariko Horo
,
2006
–
ongoing
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Tamiko Thiel, music by Ping Jin. 2006
http://www.tamikothiel.com/mariko-horo/
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Description
The interactive 3D virtual reality installation "The Travels of Mariko Horo" is a reverse Marco Polo fantasy imagining the fictitious Mariko Horo as a Japanese time-traveler searching for the Western Paradise of Buddhist mythology, the Isles of the Blest floating in the Western Seas. Mistaking Venice for the entire Western World, she builds an exotic, fantastic Occident visually inspired by Byzantine icons and Dante’s cosmology, but structured according to Buddhist concepts.
Users experience the Western World through Mariko’s eyes, exploring a lonely, abandoned archipelago at the farthest ends of the earth. The virtual world however is a non-cartesian space in which vast universes can be hidden in small, drab buildings: a pavilion transports user s to a piazza filled with jeweled palaces; a small temple can open into heavens filled with angelic hosts or hells of shrieking fire. Trapped in an eternal cycle of death and rebirth, users see that their actions have consequences, letting loose evil into the world or transforming it into a paradise.
Keywords
aesthetics
navigable
genres
installations
interactive installations
virtual reality (VR)
subjects
Arts and Visual Culture
panopticons
Body and Psychology
imagination
History and Memory
history
Nature and Environment
globes
Religion and Mythology
myths
religions
Society and Culture
digital identity
folklore
utopias
technology
displays
electronic displays
projection screens
software
Virtual Reality Markup Language (VRML)
Technology & Material
Display
5m wide x 3m high front projection screen
Hardware
Windows XP or 7 PC, custom modified joystick and stand, stereo loudspeakers
Software
Bitmanagement Software 3D VRML browser
Exhibitions & Events
RESET III and VIRTUAL REALITY
2017
ANIME Japanese Comics Global
2008
Siggraph 2007
2007
ISEA 2006 [The Thirteenth International Symposium on Electronic Art]
2006
DANCE 2006: Festival of Contemporary Dance
2006
Bibliography
Quiroz Luna, Marcela
.
»Orientalism, Occidentalism and Other Myths of Origin.«
Fahrenheit Contemporary Art Magazine
, no. 39 (February 2010): 102-104.
Smith, Matthew Wilson
.
»Liquid Walls: The Digital Art of Tamiko Thiel.«
Performing Arts Journal
32, no. 3 (September 2010): 25-34.
Thiel, Tamiko and Noah Wardrip-Fruin
.
»Where Stones Can Speak: Dramatic Encounters in Interactive 3D Virtual Reality.«
In
Third Person: Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives
, edited by Pat HarriganCambridge, MA: MIT-Press, 2009.
Thiel, Tamiko
.
»Life at the Interface of Art and Technology.«
On Screen
18, no. 1 (Winter 2007): 32-34.