Abstract
WonderForest: VR Immersive Interactive Art Installation Exhibited in Video Format
“WonderForest” is an immersive VR interactive piece asking the question of “what is real?”. If life is composed of a pile of sensory experiences, should VR be included in this game of life? And can “VR” experiences expand and break the stereotypical idea of “real” and “nature”? This conceptual exploration was inspired by French Philosopher, Gilles Deleuze’s statement that “the virtual is opposed to actual but not real" in his publication “Bergsonism”. Hence, the virtual experience should also deliver real senses and even an extended version of reality. “WonderForest” here also implies a utopia-kind of mental escape from reality which is an urgent need after the COVID-19 relentlessly interfering everyone’s life.
In “WonderForest”, it provides an immersive digitalized visual/audio environment as a new Nature. Just like walking in a forest, the audiences can sense the nature atmosphere but with totally different environmental elements. By creating meshes of waves as landscape, free-floating cubes and flying dots as living species, noise mixing with birds singing as ambient sounds, the project challenges the general stereotypical notion of Nature. It is also to convince the audiences' that what they've experienced in the VR environment should be considered as “real”. For example, who can be certain about the space multiple lightyears away would be the same physical materialization as we have here and not like in the “WonderForest”? Besides, no matter if it is virtual or real, they will all imprint in our body/mind as real senses and memories once you experienced them, just like seeing movies or playing video games or even dreaming. And that is what “WonderForest” attempts to deliver.
Speaking about the actual play in “WonderForest”, the audiences can hit the floating cubes, attract the swarm of dots, producing colorful rain, making flashy lights, which are not possible in the so-called “real” world. And that is what makes the VR experience fun, interesting, and can be possibly become the extension/escape of reality.
WonderForest, as a VR interactive immersive installation, was selected in Moving Body Festival: Critical Moves under the New Media section in Bulgaria. Since COVID-19, Moving Body Festival attempts to look for the future definition of “Body”. Is it a collective body, а material as well as an abstract one, a body in motion, or the only thing that makes it feel whole?
Exhibited at Moving Body Festival, 29 October-7 November
“WonderForest” is an immersive VR interactive piece asking the question of “what is real?”. If life is composed of a pile of sensory experiences, should VR be included in this game of life? And can “VR” experiences expand and break the stereotypical idea of “real” and “nature”? This conceptual exploration was inspired by French Philosopher, Gilles Deleuze’s statement that “the virtual is opposed to actual but not real" in his publication “Bergsonism”. Hence, the virtual experience should also deliver real senses and even an extended version of reality. “WonderForest” here also implies a utopia-kind of mental escape from reality which is an urgent need after the COVID-19 relentlessly interfering everyone’s life.
In “WonderForest”, it provides an immersive digitalized visual/audio environment as a new Nature. Just like walking in a forest, the audiences can sense the nature atmosphere but with totally different environmental elements. By creating meshes of waves as landscape, free-floating cubes and flying dots as living species, noise mixing with birds singing as ambient sounds, the project challenges the general stereotypical notion of Nature. It is also to convince the audiences' that what they've experienced in the VR environment should be considered as “real”. For example, who can be certain about the space multiple lightyears away would be the same physical materialization as we have here and not like in the “WonderForest”? Besides, no matter if it is virtual or real, they will all imprint in our body/mind as real senses and memories once you experienced them, just like seeing movies or playing video games or even dreaming. And that is what “WonderForest” attempts to deliver.
Speaking about the actual play in “WonderForest”, the audiences can hit the floating cubes, attract the swarm of dots, producing colorful rain, making flashy lights, which are not possible in the so-called “real” world. And that is what makes the VR experience fun, interesting, and can be possibly become the extension/escape of reality.
WonderForest, as a VR interactive immersive installation, was selected in Moving Body Festival: Critical Moves under the New Media section in Bulgaria. Since COVID-19, Moving Body Festival attempts to look for the future definition of “Body”. Is it a collective body, а material as well as an abstract one, a body in motion, or the only thing that makes it feel whole?
Exhibited at Moving Body Festival, 29 October-7 November
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Publication status | Published - Oct 2021 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | Moving Body Festival - , Bulgaria Duration: 29 Oct 2021 → 07 Nov 2021 |
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