Traversal for Faneuil Hall and Shafer Tower

To visit to the performance in Second Life use this SLurl: http://tinyurl.com/IDIA-Cyberarts


Traversal for Faneuil Hall and Shafer Tower is a live performance and hybrid reality installation that bridges the physical and virtual worlds. It will connect Faneuil Hall in Boston (virtualized in Second Life) with Shafer Tower at Ball State University as part of the 2009 Boston Cyberarts Festival.
Visitors to Second Life will be able to play the bell tower at BSU on McKinley Avenue via an interactive online virtual instrument built by IDIA - located in a 3D model of Faneuil Hall. Participants from all over the world can play the actual French carillon on top of Shafer Tower by using their Second Life avatars. The ringing of the bells of Shafer Tower will be streamed and simulcast back into Second Life, so the virtual participants can see and hear their interactions. Participants at Shafer Tower can connect to their virtual counterparts through technology set up at the base of the tower.
IDIA’s Director, John Fillwalk, Jesse Allison, staff and graduate students have collaboratively designed and built this interactive artwork.

THE INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL INTERMEDIA ARTS is a collaborative research and design studio established as part of the Digital Exchange - a digital media initiative at Ball State University’s Center for Media Design.