Soundprints

Visitors to the “Temporäre Galerie” on Campus Rütli can try out the first graphic novel published in the video game Minecraft. It tells a story from a society of the future, for which music is the most important medium: everyone takes part in music competitions like Britain’s Got Talent on the Internet, on the streets, on subway trains, and in apartments. Using sound printing, a researcher named Hannah Sahin creates a clone of the famous musician Pedro Moffat. But the experiment goes wrong due to the influence of aliens, and the clone becomes wayward, with seemingly uncontrollable powers. To prevent him from being killed, Sahin flees the institute with him ...

Plug-ins allow interaction with the Minecraft characters in German, helping to find the settings on the Minecraft server.

The story is in English!

In addition to access to the Minecraft server, selected images from the graphic novel and videos of individual sections of the narrative are part of the exhibition, showing various versions of faces done with AI picture generation. This editing was necessary because most of the visual material is photorealistic, especially the faces of the main characters. The special thing about this graphic novel is not only that it is to be (co-)published in Minecraft, but also that all of the locations – scenes in the city or nature – were previously built in Minecraft, and used and photographed as filming locations. The exhibition shows this interplay between the film settings built in Minecraft and the resulting images in the graphic novel.

In addition, pupils from Campus Rütli have recreated important places in their family history in connection with the Roots project using the same technology in Minecraft. Their Minecraft worlds and pictures will also be presented!