Virva Emilia Auvinen

New Media
1972, Finland

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+358 50 929 6723
virva(at)virva.biz

Touch the Unreachable - looking for the Finnish
identity

'Touch the unreachable' is a concept design on how to use interactive storytelling techniques, video, 3D-animation and graphic visualization for art education purposes.

The concept is an application designed for a museum environment and it aims to promote knowledge of Finnish cultural heritage. Step by step, the visitor follows Finnish artists through history and comes face to face with the same problematic situations as experienced by the artists. The main task of the visitor is to establish a theme and create four example prints that reflect Finnish culture and identity for the Finnish Pavilion in the Paris World Exhibition of 1900. The journey follows historical facts and chronology during 1899-1900 in Finland and Paris.

Wemmeri and Ludzia (the tutor and his antagonist) follow the visitor's movements throughout the journey and actively participate in his or her actions. The journey is based on the narrative structure of Peter Howitt's 1998 film 'Sliding Doors'. The concept design consists of a design & content document and of various artworks, including the visual study for the interface and the 3D characters of Wemmeri and Ludzia.