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Feel My Metaverse is a three channel installation centered around a 35 minute CGI film set in a speculative future, featuring four animatic posters and augmented reality (AR) face filters.
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Before entering the fully immersive film installation, audience are introduced to the work by four animatic posters, presenting a glimpse of the film and the metaverse. The three video projections reflect onto a mirrored floor, creating a rippled and watery effect. Foam sculptures shaped like mounds of earth are centered in the middle of the floor as islands where the audience are invited to view the film from. The foam sculptures gently mould to the body when sat on and leave a momentary trace after leaving. Three QR codes activate an AR face filter of each protagonist in the film, allowing the audience to become their favourite character.
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Built within a game engine, Feel My Metaverse is set in a not too distant future where the climate crisis has rendered the Earth uninhabitable. Corporation Alipay promptly disseminated life units. Inside these life units, humans live in a Metaverse of virtual worlds; worlds that feel as real as the Earth. To survive in these virtual worlds, humans must earn points to keep their base bodies alive.
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Analysing contemporary belief systems, the work plays on our understanding of reality and the idea that we can create our own future through the stories we collectively believe in. It contemplates how individuals can be required to trust, suffer and live in realities that they intuitively disagree with. The work critiques the disconnection of monopolising desires of corporate and futurist visions in relation to inequality and the climate crisis. It also explores technology as an emancipatory tool, deconstructing physical limitations through sensory understanding and elevating unheard voices.
