You Tube Crazy

Another gift from YouTube. This one is a surprising mixture of technical prowess with a touch of ghetto. Feels like home to me (if I was a major geek with the skills involved to pull this off). Sadly, I am only a blossoming geek with very few skills, with the exception of peppering my conversations with semantic tidbits that generally go unappreciated.




The Performance
On Saturday 24th June 2006, 67 people sat for almost 4 hours in the a theatre of the Espace Nuithonie. After they received colour t-shirts, they simulated the pixels of the game. For each of the 390 pictures, these human pixels moved or not, from one seat to another, following the specific rules they had been given according to their role (canon, spaceship, missile, bunker,...). All photographs were then put together into a short animation movie.

The SPACE INVADERS video was shown to the public of the Festival on June 29th and July 8th 2006. The audience could then discover a giant-sized game of SPACE INVADERS at human-scale.

SPACE INVADERS is part of the GAME OVER Project:
> www.notsonoisy.com/gameover

SPACE INVADERS could only come into existence thanks to the Belluard Bollwerk International (Fribourg, Switzerland):
> www.belluard.ch