Slow Fall 2003 presents a virtual soldier / fighter character, recontextualised from the game UNREAL TOURNAMENT into a new work entitled 'Slow Fall 2003'. The reframable animation, which shows a soldier character just after getting shot and falling to the ground, is scheduled to run over the approximate lenght of the recent Iraqi war, 20 days or 28800 minutes and to loop upon completion.

This work began on September 6th 2003 and is intended to run indefinitely.

The work was first shown as part of the Ars Electronica Festival 2003 where it ran for the 6 day duration of the festival to end on September 11th 2003.

 

 

This work is a 4MB Virtools file and will take some time to load even on a broadband connection. The Virtools web player will automatically install upon user authorisation.

Slow Fall 2003 is a project from john gerrard

Soldier character © Epic Games,
Interaction design : Erwin Reitbocker.