About Whale Chong
Whale Chong is an Internet project about whale and whaling made for Museum of Natural History in Bergen, Norway. Whale Chong was web-exhibition at http://www.museum.uib.no/ in 2004. See http://bergenmuseum.uib.no/nettutstillinger/alle/
Whale Chong is an interactive multimedia gamelike ’instrumental text about whales and whaling.
Whale Chong in a beta version was available for users to explore at Transform Site at Artgenda 2002 Hamburg where serving of whalebeef-tasters was part the opening of Transform Site and introduced a playful approach to information and the discussion around whaling that Whale Chong aims for.
A beta version of Whale Chong was also shown as an interactive installation at Artgenda By Night – at the Museum of Natural History in Hamburg 2002.
Nina SM, 2003
Credits
Idea, scriptwriting, visuals/animation/programming: Nina Svane-Mikkelsen
Sound: Audun Eriksen, http://plot.bek.no/~audun
Thank you to Jim Nollman for permission to use his sound file Beluga sound © Jim Nollman
The project is supported by The Norwegian Council for Cultural Affairs
Om Whale Chong
Whale Chong er et internetprojekt om hval og hvalfangst lavet til Naturhistorisk Museum i Bergen. Whale Chong var web-udstilling på http://www.museum.uib.no/ i 2004. Se http://bergenmuseum.uib.no/nettutstillinger/alle/
Whale Chong kan kaldes en internet ’symfoni’, eller en blanding af chat og sang, i lyd, foto, grafik. Whale Chong kretser rundt hvalfangst debatten på en poetisk og surrealistisk måde. En beta version af Whale Chong var tilgængelig på Transform Site i Hamburg (Artgenda 2002 Hamburg) for andre kunstneres intervention i værket. Whale Chong indgik også i projektet artgenda by night som en interaktiv installation på Naturhistorisk Museum i Hamburg juni 2002.
På grund af værkets ikke-lineære struktur, med flere mulige veje videre i hver scene, vil hver gennemkøring af verket være forskellig.
Nina SM 2003
Idé, tilrettelægning, visuelt materiale: Nina Svane-Mikkelsen
Lyd: Audun Eriksen, http://plot.bek.no/~audun
Tak til Jim Nollman for tilladelse til at bruge hans lydfil Beluga sound © Jim Nollman
Projektet er støttet af Norsk Kulturråd
About Whale Chong Whale Chong is an Internet project about whale and whaling made for Museum of Natural History in Bergen, Norway. Whale Chong was web-exhibition at http://www.museum.uib.no/ in 2004....