IMAGINING VISION – RITES: interactive installation

Rites

Exploration game based on amateur YouTube videos

Rites is a first person exploration game in which the user gets to explore a dreamlike world based on amateur YouTube videos. Interacting with Rites, these videos represent our collective memory.

The digital landscape of Rites is built up of recontextualised elements of videos, where new connections are established between the consisting parts. Immersed in this virtual environment, the user becomes the protagonist of these transformed situations where space is generated around the player, they player’s interactions change the progress of the game, choosing from the elements of his environment the user can build up his own totem of recollection.

As opposed to most games, in Rites’ universe, there are no definite goals to achieve or specific storylines. Focusing on discovery instead, it allows all sorts of ways of exploration from active interaction to contemplation.

Kitchen Budapest

Kitchen Budapest was founded in 2007 with the support of Hungarian Telekom.
KIBU is an internationally recognized innovation lab where we help ideas take wing with incubation, education and playing. Our goal is to create sustainable, valuable projects with meaning and authenticity.

We also take active part in the design of new products and services for Telekom contributing to its success on the Hungarian market. Building on our rich history we activate a wide network of people to be always in the heart of innovation. At the intersection of technology, science, culture and art KIBU is a true interdisciplinary and social place to experiment for all those who want to show on real life projects what they can do.

Here at KIBU we lead thinking and contribute to the discussions about the trends in technology and design keeping the social and human focus always in the centre. Our core team consists of a wide range of competencies including graphic designers, industrial designers, visual artists, animators, electrical engineers, legal specialist, researcher and communication and business experts. Our projects are the result of their knowledge, teamwork and playful experimentation. Our team continuously works on colorful and inspiring projects aiming to turn some of them into long lasting success.