_Credits
_CREATED BY
Dominique Gonzalez
_ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
Corine Sombrun
_LINE PRODUCER
Chloé Jarry (Lucid Realities)
_DIRECTOR
Dominique Gonzalez-Forster
_PRODUCTION
HTC Vive Arts
_VR DEVELOPMENT
Novelab
Endodrome
_ CLIENT
Dominique Foester Gonzalez
_ RELEASE
2019
_ TECHNOLOGY
Virtual reality – interactive installations
Endodrome is the first virtual reality artwork by pioneering artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster.
Officially invited to the main exhibition of the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia “May You Live in Interesting Times” curated by Ralph Rugoff, this VR environment has been presented at the Arsenale from May 11 to November 24 in 2019.
For this project Novelab was in charge of the VR development.
A THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE
ENDODROME is a staged environment for five people to enter at each time, combining an interactive VR experience with a theatrical setting that suggests the experience of a séance.
The title of the piece, derives from the Greek words ‘endon’, meaning ‘internal’, and ‘dromos’, meaning ‘running, race track’.
With Endodrome, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster has created a VR artwork which allows viewers to journey inwards to access alternative states of consciousness.
AN HYPNOTIC ENVIRONMENT
The eight-minute experience begins by immersing viewers in a hypnotic, monochrome environment, before moving into an abstract visual space, in which bright color fields shift in response to the gaze and breath.
The artwork draws on the artist’s experience of sound-induced cognitive trance with musician and author Corine Sombrun, who collaborated with the artist to create an accompanying soundscape.
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