2022, Maxim Shchapov MA Experimental Game Cultures University of Applied Arts Vienna
Shown At: Angewandte Festival 2022, 2023 Parallel Vienna 2022 A Maze Berlin 2023 Artificial Museum Vienna 2023
Keywords: Digital Game, Augmented Reality, 3D Sculpture, Transmedia Art
Neozymandia Monumentalis is a transmedia art-game project, consisting of a digital game, a physical toy, and an XR-artwork. It critically explores structures of power and authority, and their impotence in the face of inevitable change.
The digital game invites players to ascend the mysterious tower, observing the environment and the narrative change based on their progress. At the culmination of the process, the player is offered to examine their own path, it’s impact, and the remnants of the monument. The physical toy and the XR-object provide additional perspectives on the structure and its ever-changing states.
References and sources of inspiration:
<aside> 🗿 Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley (poem)
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<aside> 🗼 Monument to the III International, Tatlin’s Tower (architecture)
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<aside> 🛕 The Tower of Babel by Pieter Breugel (painting)
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<aside> 📖 Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (novel)
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