METAVERSE MAKEOVERS
Applying, revealing, and reflecting the infinite. A make-over evolution.
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.
METAVERSE MAKEOVERS @ FUR SALON
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
Listen Now
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
Hologram Holiday
LEVEL 2 / METAVERSE MAKEOVERS - iNAILS
Curated as part of My Own Private Neon Oasis
Museum of Brisbane
Be pampered by this shimmering fantasy salon, and teleported to an elusive neon mirage while having a beauty treatment conducted by the Hologram Hostesses in iNails.
Hologram Holiday features Augmented Reality enhanced manicures, dreamy exotica soundtrack, and hypersaturated in-flight entertainment.
Hologram Holiday exists as the next incarnation of Metaverse Makeovers - a series of AR infused site-specific interventions and performances in beauty salons.
iNAILS
Direction/ Producer / Transmedia Design: Thea Baumann
Producer: Willoh S. Weiland (Aphids)
Augmented Reality Design: Ben Ferns (Tokyo)
Film: Adele Wilkes
Sound Design: Alex Akers
Performer: Shian Law
Text contribution: Anna Sutton
Make-up: Lou McLaren
WHEN
15th - 18th September 2011
LOCATION
iNails shop #25 Sunnybank Plaza
Brisbane
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.