Viktorija project is hosting an event that combines technology, art, and sports in an unprecedented way. In a groundbreaking collaboration, visitors have the incredible opportunity to participate in a live 3D scanning experience. This cutting-edge technology transforms them into digital avatars that become the superstar soccer players of Viktorija.
Once the scanning process is complete, the data collected by the artist Rebecca Merlic is animated and added to the collection of goalkeepers of Viktorija game to bring the scanned avatars to life.
Become a football player: 3D live scanningŽeljko Beljan (HR), Rebecca Merlic (AT)
Scanning time and place:
Friday, 27.10.2023., 14:00 – 19:00 h, Museum of Contemporary Art (Avenija Dubrovnik 17, Zagreb)
Željko Beljan (HR)
Željko Beljan (1984) graduated from the Department of Animated Film and New Media of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2021. His interest encompasses craft, folk art, outsider art, traditional handiwork techniques, as well as the position and perception of handiwork in contemporary art. He is an alumnus of the WHW Academy Class of 2022 and a finalist for the 2023 Radoslav Putar Award. He exhibited at several solo and group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad.
Rebecca Merlic (AT)
Rebecca Merlic (1989) is a European digital artist, architect and experimental filmmaker. Her work is strongly influenced by alternative societies and transgressions of socioeconomic conventions as well as by new forms of artistic and architectural production employing new technologies. Merlic won the Marianne.von.Willemer Prize for Digital Media in 2020, Ars Electronica Prix Honorary Mention in the category New Animation Art in 2023 and is currently working on GLITCHBODIES VR.
