Art+Com
Invisible Shape of Things Past
Deutscheland, 1998, (11'15'')


The Invisible Shape of Things Past is an exploration of the representation of time in virtual space and the navigation through time in VR. The project enabels users to transform film sequences into interactive virtual objects.
Using the example of Berlin, all the urban situations since the year 1900 were modeled, and the film objects were positioned according to the virtual location and the virtual time layer, where and when they were shot. Three concepts were developed for navigating through these time layers: the first is based on the trasformation from one temporal urban situation to the next, the second is based on the spatial layering of the individual historical conditions, in the third elements from different time layers may be individually configured

Il video presenta le varie fasi del progetto The Invisible Shape of Things Past che consente di navigare attraverso il tempo e lo spazio utilizzando spezzoni di film come oggetti virtuali interattivi. Come esempio è stata scelta la città di Berlino. Attraverso un modello virtuale di tutte le situazioni urbane dal 1900 ad oggi, con inseriti gli spezzoni video allĠinterno delle differenti epoche, si da la possibilità al navigatore di attraversare la storia della città attraverso percorsi non predeterminati.