CHAPTER 6: Sky Line (2014)- v.0.9
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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
This is a graphics-intensive program. If it runs slowly, set graphics quality to "Fastest" and resolution to 1024x768 or lower.
Mac OSX or Windows 7/8
Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU processor
4GB System RAM
NVIDIA or AMD ATI video card with 1GB of RAM
INSTALLATION
Windows: Download, Unzip and Run the .exe
Mac: Download and Run the App. May need to set your operating system to 'Run Apps from Unknown Developers' (link)
INSTRUCTIONS
Use the Arrow or WASD Keys to Move
Mouse or Trackpad to Look
Catch a train to one of the five stations, or find the hidden zones through the teleporter.
Chapter 6: Sky Line
Digital Commission for Art Licks Weekend 2014
Sky Line is a dream of London. It is a response to the lack of infrastructure for independent galleries and project spaces in London, using the medium of a video game to create a unified transportation network for these disparate zones.
Modelled as a floating version of the Circle Line, each station is based on a location participating in the Art Licks Weekend festival, with their physical architecture transformed into idealised digital models.
In this virtual world, travellers are given unlimited access to the hovering trains, moving between independent galleries, domestic exhibitions, subterranean spaces, and other fragments of the city. Sky Line proposes a form of utopia where the vision of London is not of financial skyscrapers, but of infinite access.
Sky Line continues Lek's use of simulation as a medium to assemble three-dimensional collages of objects and situations observed from reality. The project is presented as a download, video tour, and as a playable game in an installation at the White Building.
Sky Line is a project by Lawrence Lek
Digital Commission for Art Licks Weekend 2014
With the generous support and participation of:
Art Licks - Holly Willats and Jose da Silva
395 - Pavilion Projects - Sophie Yetton
38b - Luke Drozd and Eva Rowson
A Brooks Art - Julia Riddiough & Sadie Hennessy
Amatorska - Agnieszka Szczotka
Arbeit Gallery - Nimrod Vardi
Art House Foundation - Caroline Rolf
Conduire - Sophie Risner
Dig Collective - William Bock
Enclave - Lucy A Sames
Gowlett Peaks - Elinor Morgan
Hotel Elephant - Lucy Woodhouse
Jupiter Woods - Hanna Laura Kaljo, Lucy Lopez, Carolina Ongaro, Barnie Page, Cory Scozzari & Emma Siemens-Adolphe. (Artists: Anne de Boer & Eloise Bonneviot)
Ladette Space - Elena Colman
Legion TV - Kiera Blakey & Matthew-Robert Hughes
Millington ! Marriott - Sean Millington, Will Marriott
Project/Number - Chris Rawcliffe (Artist: Tristan Stevens)
South Kiosk - Dave Charlesworth & Philip Serfaty
Studio 180 - Ella Phillips
The White Building - Rachel Falconer
YYY - Charlotte Law
Funded by Outset Contemporary Arts Fund
Supported by SPACE and The White Building
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CHAPTER VI
SKY LINE
Walkthrough
Trailer
Screenshots
Exhibition
ABOUT
Bonus Levels is a utopian world-in-progress that unfolds as an ongoing series of software, videos, performances, and installations.
Conceived as a virtual novel, each chapter uses simulation as a medium to assemble site-specific collages of objects and places drawn from reality.
These critical fictions draw from the language of architecture and cinema to explore altered states of presence and memory that exist in digital space.
Each level is rendered visible to the observer through a first-person perspective, a flaneur's point of view where the desire to explore and the need for individual agency both exist.
BIO
Lawrence Lek (b. 1982, Frankfurt) explores the physical experience of simulated presence through software, hardware, installations and performance.
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