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Sergey Petrov
Socializer Chat
Petko Dourmana / Sergey Petrov, Sofia, Bulgaria


The concept of this project is based on a very simple idea; speaking with each other, exchanging words and ideas . In this process, people build or destroy something. In the concrete case this is a 3D tower and you can make an analogy with the Bible legend for the Babylon tower that the people tried to build and to reach God or rather the perfection He symbolizes. Some specifically chosen words used in the chat window build or destroy this tower. This tower can be infinitely high or never be built. The words are positive - love, good, light, life, paradise etc. and negative - hate, evil, dark, dead, hell etc. There are some images that correspond with the positive words. This 3D online work was supported by the EMARE (European Media Art Residency Exchange) programme at Hull Time Based Arts, UK, and it was supported by InterSpace, Sofia.

Technical requirements: Cortona VRML Client and Internet Explorer
PC – 800 MHz CPU or more, minimum 128 Mb RAM