Visual Out

As a program defying your operating system’s wishes, plunge into the depths of a dying computer, and augment yourself with data-scrambling abilities like the Jammer, Current, Turret, and more. Uncover the secrets behind the computer’s – and its creator’s – demise.

Features:

• Explore a vast environment within the dying computer.
• Gain six unique abilities and their upgrades to aid in exploration.
• Manipulate the environment by controlling the flow of power.
• Traverse a mix between mechanical and digital landscapes, rendered with distinctive visual effects and minimalist pixel art.
• A mysterious ambient-glitch soundtrack by Abstraction Music.
• Outsmart and overpower each of the four sector’s bosses.

A Mortician’s Tale

A Mortician’s Tale is a narrative-driven death positive video game where you play as a mortician tasked with running a funeral home—preparing the bodies of the deceased (via embalming or cremation), attending their funerals and listening to their loved ones’ stories, and running the business.

Liquorice

Hyperreal realtime 70bpm. Simultaneously meditative and relentless, Liquorice is an intuitive no-penalty musical world and performance instrument. Connect programmable Node-Terminal machines and create a sonic singularity. Discover ways to influence the savage landscape by choreography.

Life Goes On

Life Goes On: Done to Death is a comically-morbid platformer where you guide heroic knights to their demise and use the dead bodies to solve puzzles. Wanting to live forever, a mighty king sends his army of knights to find the Cup of Life. On this quest, you will summon knight after knight to be brutally sacrificed. As you journey through treacherous and trap-ridden worlds, you’ll show no mercy to solve each challenging puzzle.

Guacamelee

n Guacamelee! besturen spelers Juan die zich langs verschillende vijanden en obstakels moet vechten om zo El Presidentes dochter te redden. Juan kan vijanden aanvallen door basisaanvallen te gebruiken en kan verschillende grijpaanvallen uit voeren wanneer ze verdoofd zijn, om zo meer schade aan te richten of ze naar andere vijanden te gooien. Munten worden verkregen door vijanden te verslaan die uitgegeven kunnen worden bij verschillende locaties om nieuwe grijpaanvallen te ontgrendelen of de gezondheid- of staminameters van de speler te verbeteren. Terwijl de speler verder komt in het spel, vernietigd Juan verschillende “Choozobeelden” die hem nieuwe eigenschappen geven. Deze variëren van aanvallen, zoals een uppercut en kopstoot tot eigenschappen die Juans mobiliteit verbeteren, zoals dubbel springen, tegen muren opspringen en de eigenschap in een kip te kunnen veranderen. Juan verkrijgt ook eigenschappen om zich te verplaatsen tussen het land van de levenden en het land van de doden, benodigd om puzzels op te lossen of om tegen vijanden te vechten die alleen aangevallen kunnen worden in een bepaalde wereld. Spelers kunnen deze mogelijkheden gebruiken om voorheen onbereikbare gebieden te betreden om zo geheimen te vinden, of barrières te doorbreken die vijanden beschermen. Het spel (exclusief de Vita-versie) heeft ook een lokale coöperatieve modus, waarin de andere speler kan spelen als Tostada. Deze modus kan alleen bespeeld worden na het eerste level.

Alien Afterlife

Aliens terrorists have stolen the machine to reincarnate you. Go get it back.

Alien Afterlife is an 3d adventure game for the PC.

You die and float off into the after life. But aliens suddenly invade and steal the mechanism needed to reincarnate. Explore different levels of the bardo while you gather back the pieces needed for your rebirth.

Teyosh

Eternal Humans Disembodiment in Virtual Reality

With: Claire Hentschker (US) Martina Menegon (IT/AUT) Zeesy Powers (US) Tamiko Thiel (US/DE)

In 1991, Hans Moravec wrote in his publication The Universal Robot that the human body is disused and won’t be necessary in our future anymore. He said it would be possible to download one’s consciousness to a computer, and by transferring the mind on a technological medium the body would becomes insignificant. As humans would not be fleshly embodied, their existence would become dependent on technique, and human beings would become immortal. Virtual Reality (VR) as a technological and artistic medium enables user to experience disembodiment the way Moravec described it. Entering a virtual world allow users to immerse in a completely different place without their physical bodies. This feeling of presence in VR makes them forget about their physical bodies in reality and thus gives a feeling of disembodiment. Connected to the technological development, whole societies at a time become discarnate, detached from mere bodily or physical reality. As a result, human beings would then become rather a concept than a physical presence. Social VR spaces will soon enable us to meet our friend’s avatars online independently from our body’s actual place. Thus being evocative of the plot of the  ́Sci-Fi movie Matrix (1999), where the physical body stays in a bunk while the consciousness acts in a virtual place. VR implicates future living scenarios, but also reflects on the current state of our society and its relation to technology. Claire Hentschker shows a deserted world without any humans and, while reflecting the presence, gives an impression of how a disembodied future of formerly inhabited places could look like. Martina Menegon and Zeesy Powers confront the user with bodies that are not theirs. While Menegon provides her own body, the user can interact with; Powers mirrors the user as a 90 years old woman. Tamiko Thiel shows a society that is strongly connected to a technology that seems to prevent an actual social interaction. These four artists create models for a disembodied state of the user and reflect the relationship between technology, society, and its future.

Zeesy Powers

The technological and social framework around contemporary VR is simultaneously an infinite landscape and a prison. It has the aesthetics and rhetoric of infinity (you can be anyone, anywhere, doing anything), but practices of confinement (restricted mobility, limited access, embedded surveillance). In This Could Be You, users inhabit the body of a 90-year-old woman, trapped in an environment raining trash from the digital era. Her actions are mirrored in her twin, stripped of clothing. Live motion capture through a Kinect allows the user to interact with the experience without the use of controllers. Powers’ work gives the user the opportunity to experience the feeling of being in a different body and not being bound to the own.

http://www.zeesypowers.com

Claire Hentschker

Claire Hentschker (lives and works in Pittsburgh) Merch Mulch 2017 Mobile VR

Claire Hentschker works with film stills, which she puts together forming a subjective map of former places. Hentschker’s piece Merch Mulch portrays a three-dimensional photogrammetric amalgamation of abandoned shopping malls, digitally reconstructed from YouTube videos taken prior to the sites’ destruction. Once places of entertainment and bustling activity, these malls now appear deserted. Hentschker creates a room in which the user, although familiar with these places, is confronted with an unreal. As Moravec imagined, in a disembodied world won’t be physical corpuses anymore. As a result places like shopping malls will change and become bodiless places. Consequently these places become an image of a former time when humans physically met at an actual place.

http://www.clairesophie.com

Silent Movie – Music JAM

Do you know what a Silent Movie needs, a good soundtrack! In the true spirit of The Overkill you hav the opportunity to make a live soundtrack to whatever movie screens at that time. Is there a soundtrack being made, no problem, for 48 hours you have the time and chance to make your own soundtrack!

Tamiko Thiel

In Land of Cloud people are silent. They communicate not through speech, gesture or gaze, but instead through strange and wondrous “cloud mirrors.” These devices keep them in constant contact with their deity, The Cloud, in whose image they are created – their bodies composed of softly billowing clouds. The Land of Cloud is a beautiful garden, but the Cloud People are oblivious to their surroundings. They stare into their devices, motionless, spellbound by whispers from The Cloud. They claim they pray to the same deity, but The Cloud tells each only what they want to hear – stirring statements from leaders of their conflicting sects. Land of Cloud visualizes how we are already related and dependent on technology, and makes the role of identity in a technologized world a subject of discussion.

http://www.tamikothiel.com

Mattis Dovier

Mattis Dovier is a french illustrator and animator living in Paris who likes to explore the relation between music and visuals in a dark and playful way with particular reference to early internet aesthetics, manga and contemporary gif culture.

Martina Menegon

plug your nose and try to hum is a VR installation in which the user is surrounded by floating miniature bodies – 3D Scans of the artist’s body – that can be hit, grabbed, stretched and tossed around. Using the controllers, which also function as light sources, it is possible to freely interact with the artist’s 3d scanned body that randomly spawns around the scene, humming in various pitches. These virtual bodies propose a synthetic corporeality, evoking a sense of uncanniness due to the blurring of the split between real and virtual, flesh and data. They are perceivable digital representation, something that can be sensed and felt despite their virtual nature. In times of disembodiment the image of a body becomes important. The image itself gives the user a chance to deal with bodies in a way which wont be possible in reality.

http://martinamenegon.tumblr.com

Iris van der Meule

I am an animation student at AKV St. Joost. I like to experiment with all kinds of animation but lately I am really interested and playing with virtual reality, mixed with storytelling. I like to tackle engaged topics but I also make animations just to make you laugh.

Geoffrey Lillemon

Geoffrey Lillemon

[American Artist], [B,1981]

“Outgrowing the stems of popitude culture, art fabrications, and digital dystopia, vowing for retirement in a pixellated reinaissance of the Disney ghetto.”

LEAVE ME WINE OR LEAVE ME ALONE

Boris Labé

Danse Macabre – video installation

Enclosed in a spherical world we travel simultaneously in three different points both models, but miniature and gigantic at the same time. The scenes represented by the model are ghostly and immobile vestiges of the medieval iconography which are deformed, transformed and destroyed to finally reborn. The meeting of three disproportionates human skulls, vanities, triggers perturbation up to chaos. Skeletons dance to announce this change. A cycle of continual construction and deconstruction takes place.

Rock Band

Wees je favoriete rocker op The Overkill! Altijd populair is ons Rock Band podium, compleet met met twee gitaren, drums en zang, zodat jij The Overkill kan rocken! Veel nummers met grote diversiteit, zodat je altijd iets te doen hebt!

Peggy Schoenegge, peer to space

Peggy Schoenegge studied art history at Humboldt University and Technische University in Berlin. Since 2016 she is a curator and project manager at peer to space. Amongst others she assisted realizing the VR exhibitions The Unframed World, Reset III and Virtual Reality and curated together with Tina Sauerländer Uncanny Conditions and the recent “PENDORAN VINCI” in the NRW in Dusseldorf.

http://www.peertospace.eu/