Slopfest #70 · 1996 · Vienna
The Dancing Baby
A 3D baby danced across early inboxes. Ours was rendered at the TU and had too many joints.
Museum status: Listed as "priceless" (nobody would name a price).
- Venue
- Volksgarten, beside the rose garden
- Attendance
- 11,200
- Guest of honour
- The Artist Formerly Known as Prince (out-danced the 3D baby for a full hour)
- Also spotted
- A Leonardo DiCaprio Romeo + Juliet poster above the buffet, and the Spice Girls on the radio
- Fun fact
- 11 seconds, looped 4,300 times
What happened
The committee commissioned a dancing baby from a computer at the TU, which delivered, after six weeks, eleven seconds of something with too many joints. It was projected on a loop onto the Volksgarten wall and nobody could look away. The Artist Formerly Known as Prince danced beside it for an hour and was better at it.
Elsewhere in 1996
The 'Dancing Baby', a 3D animation made as a software demo, begins circulating by email as one of the first viral videos.
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