“never far away” is an experiential VR essay within which the artist collages together fragments of home, theories of quantum entanglement and time, and memories of his late father. The work leans into the unique affordances of VR as a way of accessing phenomenological effects on the participant, through the use of animation and media that show different things in each eye, bringing about the sensation that the only place this film actually exists is in the perception of the viewer.
This work is influenced by the exploration of family history and memory in the work of Moreshin Allahyari, the phenomenological playfulness of works by James Turrell (Light Reignfall) and Memo Akten (Fight!) and scrap book 90’s nostalgia.
“Interocular rivalry” (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11346796/) describes the hallucinogenic phenomena that occurs when different images are shown to each eye, resulting in a fluttering, intermittent flicker between each image in the mind of the viewer. Within VR, this effect may be explored as an additional affordance of the medium. This essay explores this effect as a poetic aesthetic, in effect making the experience incomplete until it is fully perceived by the individual user.
Exhibitions
“Not Yet But Soon” – Hypha Studios, November 2024
“The Whole Remains Open” – Goldsmiths Computational Arts MFA Graduation Show 2024
