STARBOARD
Website, webcast, computer stations, video cameras, Robot, robotic surveillance camera, monitors, video mixers
9
x 12 x 1 in
1997
Starboard was an episodic, interactive, theatrical piece consisting of 10 1-hour online performances. Partly scripted and partly open to improvisation with "joiners" - in real time, both virtually and live via cuseeme. Starboard is based on the type of virtual reality presence and network that occurs in MOOs. It provides a realtime performing space, a writing space, an acting space, a re-acting space, a speaking place, a place for real time avatars to act out W&W's evocative scenarios. Boolean combinatory motifs from prior events are set loose in the world. Themes include: "The Ambiance of Recursive Nesting", "Formulas for Clandestine Cross-Platform Meetings", Decoding and deencrypting with The Ship's Detective. Rare Interviews with Professor Pluto (the world's foremost authority on system security who suffers from acute paranoia) and Leonardo Da Vinci (Self-Declared Inventor of The Cyberspace) will be facilitated through faux time travel sequences. This work was shown at PORT: Navigating Digital Culture Organized by a r t n e t w e b at MIT List Visual Arts Center, 1997