Proprio.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2016/02/gauss-pdf-announces-200th-release-alejandro-miguel-justino-crawfords-video-game-diana-hamiltons-dreams/

http://www.gauss-pdf.com/post/139858882841/gpdf200-alejandro-miguel-justino-crawford

For the past 6 years, Ed Steck has been writing a nature poetry/environmental meditation/science fiction/retelling-of-Adonis/long poem/Frankenstein titled An Interface for a Fractal Landscape.  

In fact, THIS ARTICLE about Ed's writing / editing process is full of gems like:

My editing process is like turning a potato into a potato chip. The potato on its own has many possible functions and futures but a potato chip should only have one refined, tasteful and accessible functioning future.

Long story short here, a friend of mine (I forget who, sorry friend) was like, have you ever talked to Ed he's doing some VR stuff & the next morning I wrote Ed on Fb Messenger like: yo are you making your fractal landscape in VR!?  He was like, no I wish but that would be awesome; I said, agreed, lemme give it a whirl!  So Ed sent over his MSS & here's just a few test landscapes from Day 1 of tinkering around with his beautiful ideas:

5 insanely talented artists & I came together for Art Hack Day 2015 at Pioneer Works and made a VR experience called #drowning.

drowning.technology

Part drowning simulator, part game show (pretty much), #drowning is a 1v1 VR game where you're kinda bobbing above an ocean that looks post-eustatic

(non stereo screenshots bc obvi)

So basically, this is a round-based fighting game, where your only weapon is the popularity of google trend search data from 2014.  That is to say, each round has a topic: scandals, consumer electronics, sports, celebs . . .

Players say what search term they think would yield the most popular return (a number conveniently scaled btwn 0-100).  Those search terms go to Google Trends and come back with a number value, which constitutes how much the water rises in your opponent's world.

Round-based play continues until one player drowns.  you dont really win this game, you just, hopefully, dont lose first...

(above photo credit)

We had about 36 hours to make this so it's def still POC level.  but it damn works!  & the google trends part features a sick ascii / terminal based interface that we like to call the D&D version of the game experience.

more updates coming soon & stereo shots / vid & more documentation etc etc!

the team:

Alejandro Crawford / @amjcrawford

David Gomez-Urquiza / @davoclavo

Alan Schaffer / @alan_schaffer

Omer Shapira / @OmerShapira

Eve Weinberg / @evejweinberg