Demo Video of one pathway through the 3D interactive narrative installation "The Travels of Mariko Horo."
This is an Occidentalist artwork, a reverse Marco Polo fantasy in which I reconstruct "the West" (represented by the Venice of Marco Polo) through the viewpoint of "Mariko Horo," a fantasy time-traveling woman. The piece overlays Christian imagery with Buddhist cosmological structure, drawing on my research into the "Hidden Christians" in Japan, who developed a Christian/Buddhist synthesis during the 200 years in which the country was closed to the rest of the world. The piece was also inspired by the "Namban-bunka" art genre which flourished in Japan during this time, in which artists depicted foreigners and foreign lands out of their fantasies. This piece was supported by the Japan Foundation, the Kyoto Art Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and won the "Young Art and New Media" prize of the City of Munich.
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Demo Video of one pathway through the 3D interactive narrative installation "The Travels of Mariko Horo."
This is an Occidentalist artwork, a reverse Marco Polo fantasy in which I reconstruct "the West" (represented by the Venice of Marco Polo) through the viewpoint of "Mariko Horo," a fantasy time-traveling woman. The piece overlays Christian imagery with Buddhist cosmological structure, drawing on my research into the "Hidden Christians" in Japan, who developed a Christian/Buddhist synthesis during the 200 years in which the country was closed to the rest of the world. The piece was also inspired by the "Namban-bunka" art genre which flourished in Japan during this time, in which artists depicted foreigners and foreign lands out of their fantasies. This piece was supported by the Japan Foundation, the Kyoto Art Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and won the "Young Art and New Media" prize of the City of Munich.
Work metadata
- Year Created: 2010
- Submitted to ArtBase: Monday Jun 7th, 2010
- Original Url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5JQNjQvRKo
- Permalink: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5JQNjQvRKo
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Work Credits:
- Tamiko Thiel, creator
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