Hörner, Ute; Antlfinger, Mathias
«Possible Selves - computer aided story telling»

«Possible Selves» is a computer game that starts at the desk of a psychologist. Those who work at his PC first gain access to his client data bank, which contains the psychological evaluations and case studies of a group of young artists. On the path through the artists' life histories, initial indications of a second, hidden level appear. This level contains sequences of fictional psychological interviews with the artists and excerpts from a discussion of the utopia of art, which was conducted at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Dusseldorf Art Academy). From the sum of the video clips emerges the de-concentrated image of an odd study of the personality traits of young artists at the beginning of the 20th century. This environment is quite a predicament. Timothy Leary helps out: in the role of an ancient Chinese philosophy, he comments on the confusions of this first 'post-larval' generation (those born between 1945 and 1970) from the point of view of exopsychology.

Hörner, Ute; Antlfinger, Mathias