Ascension Hour - 11th Hour - Development May 2008 | Forthcoming 2009

Ascension Hour is set in an Internet broadcast studio during mankind’s final hour. It is Christmas Eve, 2070, and a tremendous storm that has wiped out almost the entire human population of the planet is headed towards Melbourne, the last city, bearing in its eye a deadly virus which causes its victims to die laughing. To the studio have come the richest, most powerful and celebrated VIPs from around the globe. They have followed the evangelist, Dr Oral Rondonald Jnr, who has promised them immortality. They have diverted the whole world’s wealth to finance his computer program, Hev-Net, into which they intend to upload their personalities and live forevermore in a paradise of their own choosing.

The video design for Ascension Hour is an ambitious project to create all visual material in real-time. Images captured by CCD cameras of the performers' silhouttes will be used to create masks and motion tracking data. This will form the structural basis for creating particle and poly-line 3D effects which will be combined with text and images pulled from the internet to create a near-future imagining of uploaded personalities and human-hacking.