Interactive Art+
HONORARY MENTION
VR Installation
This participatory artwork interrogates individual subjectivity within collective decision-making as five people interact through the sculptural object—each directed by their own virtual reality experience.
The participants play a simple game of capture-the-flag within the virtual space while the sculptural fixture restricts their movement, compelling them to predictably move side to side in physical space. This behavior in turn activates the physical object.
Conspiracy: Conjoining the Virtual builds on the artist’s research into how isolating qualities of VR in conjunction with social haptic feedback can expose viewer subjectivity and social influence through the expression of the body. It thus investigates how virtual reality can give us new perspectives on the role of the individual in a collective intention, seeking to expose the fallacy of the hive mind.
Virtual reality is computer-generated content (to represent a real place or situation.
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