vr,performance,site-specific
A site-specific, narrative VR experience about the case of a missing journalist.
Collaborator:
Siteng Liu (Actor)
7 DAYS: BEFORE THE INTERNET FORGETS
A site-specific, narrative VR experience about the case of a missing journalist.
Collaborator:
Siteng Liu (Actor)
A "suspense thriller-styled" site-specific Mixed Reality experience exploring storytelling options for VR theatre and film, combining the usage of VR/AR, Camera Passthrough, and 3D scanned environment.
Audience is invited to an enclosed area in the woods. Putting on the headset, they begin to see a 1:1 virtual space semi- transparently layered on top of the real-world scene. They navigate the location as they navigate the digital junkyard of expired news headlines scattered around, following the trail of holograms of a lost woman, gradually piecing together the forgotten case of a missing young journalist.
This work intends to go beyond the enclosed "immersive" worlds in VR performance practices and reach out to local urban landscapes, in order to call for in-person engagement with our dual habitat – one of substance, and one of information.
The storyline is adapted from real-world events, in memoriam of headlines that end up in the boundless landfill mountain of expired information. How can we interfere with the way social media journalism shapes the formation of public memory? To discover, collect, compile, annotate, and preserve is the way to remember. Like unearthing fossils from nature, the audience goes into the winding path – both in real life and the digital realm – to retrieve the "garbage" and rewrite their own narrative of what is to be remembered.
Audience is invited to an enclosed area in the woods. Putting on the headset, they begin to see a 1:1 virtual space semi- transparently layered on top of the real-world scene. They navigate the location as they navigate the digital junkyard of expired news headlines scattered around, following the trail of holograms of a lost woman, gradually piecing together the forgotten case of a missing young journalist.
This work intends to go beyond the enclosed "immersive" worlds in VR performance practices and reach out to local urban landscapes, in order to call for in-person engagement with our dual habitat – one of substance, and one of information.
The storyline is adapted from real-world events, in memoriam of headlines that end up in the boundless landfill mountain of expired information. How can we interfere with the way social media journalism shapes the formation of public memory? To discover, collect, compile, annotate, and preserve is the way to remember. Like unearthing fossils from nature, the audience goes into the winding path – both in real life and the digital realm – to retrieve the "garbage" and rewrite their own narrative of what is to be remembered.