“Babylon Cluster” is a transmedia piece composed by a video game, a music album, a live audiovisual performance and a series of printed illustrations of pixel art.
This illustrations were produced on 2012 using pixel art technique, using the art for a video game developed using Unity and being printed in 1.5 m x 1.5 m limited edition prints.
The complete piece explores the idea of a virtual babylonic cluster of information as a metaphor of a modern babel tower, implying that internet is one of the most big constructions of the human, but it may fall upon us if we are not careful, and currently I think society is living a process of a babel tower falling down, transforming a a tool of communication into a tool of disinformation, making the contemporary human more disconnected and confused as ever before.
The narrative of the piece establishes a cyborg “Rasta” pirate on a tropical cyberspace who is trying to “mash down” babylon, fighting ghosts and vampires as a symbol of the destruction of our own demons to be able to set us free from the computing modern slavery . Influences of cyberpunk, dub culture and 8bit are merged into a playful transmediatic experience.
The piece have been exhibited in different galleries, festivals and exhibits like FMEL at Chicago, Mutek.mx on its 2012 edition, La Quiñonera, Live Performance Meeting Mexico and the collective exhibit “Meta Narrativas” at Universidad Iberoamericana of Mexico City.
