‘What did the line that you last drew, ask you?,’  presents a virtual platform for digital exhibition and performance. This work is a research collaboration between alys longley, Jeffrey Holdaway and Kate Stevenson of DotDot Creative Studio, made in collaboration with international artists (such as pavleheidler [Sweden], val smith [Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland] Francisco González Castro [Chile], Máximo Corvalán-Pincheira [Chile] and Jenny Roche [Ireland]). The DotDot Social platform offers a form of virtual performance space that combines live interaction with artwork online. We present an interconnected series of virtual worlds that cross creative disciplines from contemporary poetics, performance, choreography, sound composition, gaming and visual art. 

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In this work, the way you move through virtual spaces, is the poem.

Us humans traversing distance and proximity, as text gulfs space, is the poem. 

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Our site is highly interactive and is constantly iterating in relation to audience feedback.  Our virtual platform curates and translates artworks into interactive immersive worlds through visual imaginings, creating playful interactive spaces and finding ways in which the site can be simultaneously a performance, an exhibition, an installation, a repository for creative process and a space for chance meetings or hanging out. 

 

Participants enter the digital exhibition via a simple button, and meet inside the digital exhibition/performance together. They can then converse in real time, while being able to see each other through real-time avatars accessing the microphone and camera of their device, and navigate through a series of  digital worlds or rooms, navigatable via the different studio research projects that inform this work. The resources of digital gaming, real-time social connection, virtual interactivity, are brought together in a series of experiments in poetry, choreography and visual art.