Troia

Troia is a wicked looking project by machine-performance group BBM and BlinkenArea, which appears to making an appearance at this years Future Sonic in Manchester. At the core of the building is a 14,5 metres long, 11 metres wide and 4,5 metres high room, which is equipped with 28416 pixels in total, spread over all six walls. I will definitely be attending Future Sonic to check it out.

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“The TROIA project comprises the development and production of an urban mobile theatre platform by a wide range of leading European theatre-makers, artists, architects, engineers and scientists.

The whole purpose of TROIA is to focus public awareness and discussion on the technologies of political control within the context of a fast developing Europe. It takes the most recent reports of the Manchester based Omega Foundation as its starting point. From this TROIA will develop a futuristic stage, a huge transportable building that will appear in the public forum and engage the public in ways expected and unexpected. Indeed this mobile modular container will function like a latterday Trojan Horse by infiltrating the concious and unconcious precepts of both the visitors and passers by alike. Though it has the appearance of a gift it carries a dangerous and at times subversive content.”

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Read up on the project on the BBM site, on the BlinkenArea wiki. The prototype is looking good. Also check out these videos and images. They are also holding a contest where you can send in videos on the theme of technologies of political control or crowd control.

Posted on March 29th 2005 under Light, Surfaces