[spectre] The Imaginary Hotel, a networked installation
Andrea Zapp
zapp@snafu.de
Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:01:06 +0100
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The Imaginary Hotel
An interactive Installation linked to the Internet.
By Andrea Zapp
Gallery visitors are invited to make up their own room.
Internet users are invited to take part online at www.azapp.de/hotel.
The Imaginary Hotel allows visitors to occupy and design their ideal
room and fill it with personal content and inspiration. It will be
set up in the Chapman Gallery in Salford, Greater Manchester, UK
between October 9th and 31st, 2002. The installation architecture
resembles a typical hotel room; yet choosing image, video and sound
footage from the net via the room TV menu, can alter the standard
interior and even hotel location. At the same time internet
participants can interfere by modifying or uploading further material
via the hotel website. They are also able to ring up the gallery
visitors via a specially designed web-telephone interface. A web cam
is streaming real time video from the hotel to the website to
document the ongoing changes.
A hotel as such stands for an anonymous social melting pot in a
constant state of flux - The Imaginary Hotel further mirrors digital
travel in a distorted concept of space and time. It represents a
virtual retreat accommodating permanently migrating residents.
Similar to a blank canvas, the vacant room is successively populated
and shaped by individuals. Real and virtual guests arrive, meet and
disappear from out of nowhere and leave their personal traces,
reflecting the seamless border between physical and imaginative
places of being.
Supported by the Leverhulme Trust London, the University of Salford
and the North West Arts Board.
Coding by Onno Baudouin
The Chapman Gallery, Salford, Manchester
Opening of the physical hotel and the website: 6.00 pm (GMT), October 9th, 2002
The Chapman Gallery, Peel Park Campus, University of Salford,
University Rd, Salford, M5 4WT,
Tel. 0161-295-5241
October 10th to 31st, 2002, 9.30 am - 5.00 pm, Monday - Friday.
Admission is free.
Web terminals are set up at the Cornerhouse, Manchester and the Folly
Gallery, Lancaster.
Special project presentations by the artist:
October 10th, 6.30 pm, Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5NH
October 19th, 2.00 pm, Folly Gallery, 26 Castle Park, Lancaster, LA1 1YQ
and ISEA 02, Nagoya, Japan - Poster Sessions, 30th of October.
www.azapp.de/hotel
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<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" color="#000000"><b>The Imaginary
Hotel<br>
An interactive Installation linked to the Internet.<br>
<br>
By Andrea Zapp<br>
<br>
Gallery visitors are invited to make up their own
room.</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" color="#000000"><b>Internet users are
invited to take part online at<font size="+1">
www.azapp.de/hotel</font>.</b></font><br>
</div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" color="#000000">The Imaginary Hotel
allows visitors to occupy and design their ideal room and fill it with
personal content and inspiration. It will be set up in the Chapman
Gallery in Salford, Greater Manchester, UK between October 9th and
31st, 2002. The installation architecture resembles a typical hotel
room; yet choosing image, video and sound footage from the net via the
room TV menu, can alter the standard interior and even hotel location.
At the same time internet participants can interfere by modifying or
uploading further material via the hotel website. They are also able
to ring up the gallery visitors via a specially designed web-telephone
interface. A web cam is streaming real time video from the hotel to
the website to document the ongoing changes.</font></div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" color="#000000"><br>
<i>A hotel as such stands for an anonymous social melting pot in a
constant state of flux - The Imaginary Hotel further mirrors digital
travel in a distorted concept of space and time. It represents a
virtual retreat accommodating permanently migrating residents. Similar
to a blank canvas, the vacant room is successively populated and
shaped by individuals. Real and virtual guests arrive, meet and
disappear from out of nowhere and leave their personal traces,
reflecting the seamless border between physical and imaginative places
of being.</i></font><br>
</div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" color="#000000"><b>Supported by the
Leverhulme Trust London, the University of Salford and the North West
Arts Board.</b></font><br>
</div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" color="#000000">Coding by Onno
Baudouin<br>
<br>
The Chapman Gallery, Salford, Manchester</font></div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" color="#000000"><b>Opening of the
physical hotel and the website: 6.00 pm (GMT), October 9th,
2002</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" color="#000000">The Chapman Gallery,
Peel Park Campus, University of Salford, University Rd, Salford,
M5 4WT,</font></div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" color="#000000">Tel.
0161-295-5241</font></div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" color="#000000">October 10th to 31st,
2002, 9.30 am - 5.00 pm, Monday - Friday. Admission is
free.</font></div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" color="#000000">Web terminals are set
up at the Cornerhouse, Manchester and the Folly Gallery,
Lancaster.</font></div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" color="#000000">Special project
presentations by the artist:</font></div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" color="#000000">October 10th, 6.30 pm,
Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5NH</font></div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" color="#000000">October 19th, 2.00 pm,
Folly Gallery, 26 Castle Park, Lancaster, LA1 1YQ</font></div>
<div><br></div>
<div>and ISEA 02, Nagoya, Japan - Poster Sessions, 30th of
October.</div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="+1"
color="#000000"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="+1"
color="#000000"><b>www.azapp.de/hotel</b></font></div>
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