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acmipark is multiplayer virtual world. Created by selectparks (artists Julian Oliver, Chad Chatterton, and Andrea Blundell), it was designed to extend the physical spaces of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) at Melbourne’s Federation Square into the realms of virtual space. It was produced using a game engine as its base, and worked up from the real architectural designs produced for Federation Square by Lab Architecture Studio. Designed as a soundpark, it is a musical instrument which can be played collectively, and, like Federation Square itself, it was envisaged as a kind of public space waiting for a community to define its meaning.
acmipark is multiplayer virtual world. Created by selectparks (artists Julian Oliver, Chad Chatterton, and Andrea Blundell), it was designed to extend the physical spaces of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) at Melbourne’s Federation Square into the realms of virtual space. It was produced using a game engine as its base, and worked up from the real architectural designs produced for Federation Square by Lab Architecture Studio. Designed as a soundpark, it is a musical instrument which can be played collectively, and, like Federation Square itself, it was envisaged as a kind of public space waiting for a community to define its meaning.