Virtual World Orchestra
Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow
April 1997
For three nights in April 1997, the cobbled expanse of Glasgow’s Old Fruitmarket was transformed into an audio-visual arena, playing host to artists and work from over 160 countries. Playing to a live audience and a potential 30 million viewers worldwide watched the simultaneous internet and m-bone broadcasts, Virtual World Orchestra (VWO) was a genuinely global internet event.
A spectacular digital montage of global life, VWO was NVA’s bid to make sense of that which unites and divides humanity, and fittingly crossed all boundaries - national, cultural, political, even generic. The evenings events hurtled from clubland, to installation art, from concert to performance art. VWO proved to be as unparalleled as it was unprecedented.
Past Projects
- Glasgow Harvest 2011 Various, Glasgow
- Venice Biennale XIIth International Architecture Exhibition Venice, Italy
- Glasgow Harvest 2010 Hidden Gardens, Glasgow
- Witte Fietsenplan (White Bike Plan) Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2010
- HALF LIFE Permanent Landworks Mid-Argyll
- Spirit - Chinese Spring Lantern Festival Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
- HALF LIFE Kilmartin Glen, Argyll
- Glow Newcastle, Gateshead’s Festival of Light
- Radiance Glasgow Festival of Light 05
- The Storr: Unfolding Landscape The Old Man of Storr, Trotternish, Skye
- The Hidden Gardens Tramway Arts Centre, East Pollokshields
- Fall From Light Burns And A’That Festival
- Glasgow Lighting Initiatives Long term lighting projects, Glasgow
- The Gimmick The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh International Festival
- The Path Glen Lyon, Perthshire
- Grand Central Grand Central Hotel, Central Station, Glasgow
- Expo ’98 – National Day for Britain Lisbon, Portugal
- The Secret Sign Finnich Glen, Drymen
- Virtual World Orchestra Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow
- Pain Touring Theatre Production
- Stormy Waters Meadowside Granary, Glasgow
- The Silent Twins The Old Partick Police Station, Glasgow
- Soundworks The Arches, Glasgow
- Sabotage The Tramway, Glasgow
- The Soul Machine Dowanhill Church, Glasgow
- The Second Coming St Rollox Locomotive Works, Glasgow
- Beltane Fire Festival Carlton Hill, Edinburgh