00>Cockfight Arena<00
11/10/2001 C-Level, LA, CA
09/20/2002, Silverlake Film Festival, LA, CA
01/24/2003, Mixture Gallery, Houston, TX
03/04-06/2003, Adelaide Film Festival, Adelaide, AUSTRALIA
10/10/2003,
The Kitchen, New York, NY
A one night parade of sweat and adrenaline pitting
viewer against viewer in brutal virtual cockfighting theatre. Audience
volunteers will
don custom-made game controllers with full sized wings and feathered
helmets. Combatants will step into an arena to control their life size
game avatars through vigorous flapping and pecking, competing for blood
and birdfeed while rapaciously inflicting onscreen bodily harm.
Cockfight Arena is free and open to the
public. Gambling and smoking will be permitted. No animals or humans
were injured in the production of this event.
Version
1.0 screenshot + event photos
CREDITS
Project co-ordination:
Mark Allen & Eddo Stern
Costume
Design and Production- Jessica Hutchins & Karen Lofgren
Game Design and Programming - Eddo Stern
Hardware Engineering - Mark
Allen
Video Production- Cyril Kuhn, Eddo Stern
Video Footage- Cyril Kuhn, Christina Ulke
Photography - Al Herman, Peter Brinson
Sound - Jason Brown, Eddo Stern
Graphics - Julian Gross, John Williams, Peter Brinson
Suit armature fabrication - Bill Ballou & Cecile
Bouchier
Trumpet-
Jeff Knowlton
Gambling Software - Daniella Meeker
Printed Material- Michael Wilson, Philip Soderlind
Version 2.0 screenshots