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DUSTNET

DUSTNET is a multiplayer server box preserving the ruins of the last remaining Counter-Strike lobby. Connect to it as a computer, virtual reality, or augmented reality player and sift through the corrupted cyberspace of de_dust2.

  • Neilson Koerner-Safrata
    Director
    Virtual Virtual Reality, Tendar
  • Milan Koerner-Safrata
    Design
    The Under Presents, Homestay
  • Iven Jansen
    Composer
  • Michael Chambers
    Sound Design
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Virtual Reality, Web / New Media
  • Genres:
    New Media, Installation
  • Completion Date:
    July 16, 2019
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Now Play This
    London
    United Kingdom
    April 3, 2020
    European Premiere
    Official Selection
  • A MAZE.
    Berlin
    Germany
    April 22, 2020
    German Premiere
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Neilson Koerner-Safrata

Neilson Koerner-Safrata is an emerging artist working with video game engines, his practice centers on the proliferation of lived experience within virtual worlds. Previously, he was a close collaborator with Tender Claws, with selects at Sundance New Frontier, Tribeca Immersive, Future of StoryTelling, and Games for Change.

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Director Statement

DUSTNET is a multiplayer video game installation that explores the death and afterlife of the virtual spaces we play in. The audience navigates a deconstructed version of the Counter-Strike (2000) map file de_dust2 that can be experienced on computer, virtual reality, and augmented reality platforms. Together players engage with the installation, building user generated structures and leaving messages that persist for future players, saved in perpetuity on a physical server box.