Currently, I am working on a piece, tentatively entitled "hyperspace" that explores the way that we construct ideas of ourselves on the internet and in other virtual spaces. So far, this project has resulted in two interactive pieces programmed with Processing.
The first ("hyperspace 1"), looks at the way non-tangible ideas of ourselves (spirits, souls, notions of higher consciousness) are represented on the internet and the second ("hyperspace 2")explores how we seek to create physical reflections of ourselves through online avatars.
In "hyperspace 1" images from a google image search using terms such as "spirits", "souls" "transcendence" are textured onto a 3-d polygon. The polygon can be rotated and moved within 3-d space.
hyperspace is an interactive screen-based work that explores the way that we construct ideas of space on the internet and in other virtual realities.
Representations of real and fictional places and landscapes from google image searches are textured onto a 3-d polygon. The polygon can be rotated and moved within 3-d space.
I was interested in how a sense of space can be distorted, manipulated, stacked, expanded and compressed within a three-dimensional digital environment.