Game Play Festival 2011, The Brick Theater Williamsburg
Treating the map editors in video games as virtual sound stages, foci + loci create immersive electro-acoustic spaces with virtual instruments and timed audiovisual events. Saving and replaying digital game data, camera movement in space can be disassociated from time, changing traditional filmic relationships. We are interested in exploring the topological treatment of time and space afforded by game engines.
foci + loci evolved through experimentation by Tamara Yadao and Chris Burke in 2010 with off-the-shelf video games. A fascination with the malleability of virtual space paired with an interest in electroacoustic improvisation led the duo to design spaces that could be “played” as instruments. foci + loci has performed at Babycastles, Diapason Gallery, Handmade Music at Culture Fix, Front Room Gallery, Secret Project Robot, The Stone and Game Play Festival 2011 at the Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Photo: Marjorie Becker/chiptography.com