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-8- app for iPhone and iPad


4.8 ( 3168 ratings )
Photo & Video Entertainment
Developer: Stephen Slappe
Free
Current version: 1.2, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 19 Apr 2014
App size: 475.71 Mb

Parallel dimensions and haunting noise-- lower the lights, turn up the sound, and look around.

Part short film, part game, and part video installation, 8 is an artist-produced app that places you in the middle of an immersive video where physically moving your device reveals events unfolding and repeating around you. Users can navigate through a maze of 24 looping scenes by simply tapping the screen. Navigation symbols can be used to learn patterns of movement through the app but there is no real beginning or end.

Visit stephenslappe.com to download a companion booklet to 8 the app or purchase a physical copy from Social Malpractice Publishing.

Made by Stephen Slappe
App Developed by Jacob Fennell (+software engine)
Sound elements by Bryson Hansen
Graphic design by Nate Preston
Post-production by David McCutchen
Actors are Emily Galash, Dane Overton, Alicia Gordon, Rebecca Carlisle-Healy, Robert Burns, Zoe Bullock, Joe Noreen, Rachael Jensen

Supported by the following organizations:
The Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR
The Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR