METAVERSE MAKEOVERS
thechrysalisseum.net
Applying, revealing, and reflecting the infinite. A make-over evolution.
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METAVERSE MAKEOVERS is a series of live performance installations integrating the latest in live-video processing and augmented reality enhanced projections. Three works will be presented site-specifically in the hyper-colour environments of beauty salons, saunas, and nail parlours across 2011.
3d Filmed and cinematographic assets undertaken across the physical site-specific venues feeds into the development of an online game, and downloadable AR couture line.
METAVERSE MAKEOVERS places contemporary perspectives on beauty, the art of maquillage, and mediated forms of embodiment under a seductive lens.
FUR:
Performer/ Choreographic Auteur: Brooke Amity-Stamp
Dancers: Lilian Grace Steiner, Rebecca Jensen, Emily Ranford, Annabelle Balhary, Sarah Aiken, Natalie Abbott
Artist/ Stylist: Alice Lang
Hair: FUR / Nina Ratsfaphong
Augmented Reality Make-up Artist/ ARCCTV technician: Ben Ferns aka Rare Sense (Tokyo)
Sound design: Katharine Neil (Paris / Australia)
Filmmaker : Adele Wilkes
HOTHOUSE CLUB:
Club concept colour tracks: Vogue
Culinary Director: Good Evening
Cocktail Alchemy: Brendan Harwood / New Gold Mountain
Landscape Design: Julia Mardjuki
Photography: Andrew Mac
Design: Republic of Synesthesia (New York/ Australia)
Production Manager: Bindi Green
Producer : Willoh S. Weiland
Producer/Director / Transmedia Experience Design: Thea Baumann / The Chrysalisseum
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Sound Design: Katharine Neil
Metaverse Makeovers Part One: Aurora Formation by Aphids
Metaverse Makeovers Part Two: Colour Seduction by Aphids
Metaverse Makeovers Part Three: Chromatic Evolution by Aphids
Metaverse Makeovers has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body and the City of Melbourne through their annual Arts Grant Program.