paralevel | OA_NIMK2 is a 'strange loop' which traverses the real and
the virtual through the use of videogame technology augmented with a
live video feed from a webcam. The installation responses to the
physical gallery space by mirroring and perpetuating it. At the same
time the viewers’ positions and perspectives of the exhibition space are
contradicted by the projected scene before them. This results in the
destabilisation -- if only briefly -- of the spatial experience. An
unsettling interaction between architecture and its visual perception
unfolds.

OA_NIMK2 is a current instalment of the paralevel project; a series of
alterations which add a game level to a structure or building, which
exists besides and beyond its physical architecture The experiential
modification provokes the viewer to shift between a temporal and spatial
realisation of the surrounding space.

The project is entirely based upon OpenSource software and content, and
its codebase with links to all respective projects and authors can be
accessed through paralevel.lowstandart.net. Features include a modified
OpenArena videogame-engine with added video-texture functionality, and
an extra networking implementation to allow signal processing through
the PureData software package.