Project Type

VR Experience

Role

VR Designer, Concept, Prototyping, Sound co-design

Timeline

2 months

Tools

Maya, Premiere Pro, Photoshop

Project Description:

Visual content from social media (specifically images pulled from Explore on Instagram which are sensitive to where one lives, who they follow, and what they "like") are digitally layered with my own self-portraiture, animated, and projected upon the surface of a cloud-shaped form. Blurring the edges of my identity as a femme Iranian immigrant based in the US, the piece becomes an ever-shifting digital skin of algorithmic content projected upon the static aggregate of overlapping forms, fighting against the flattening of these assumed or imagined identities.

Examining the disjunct between digital and physical space, mind and body, body and language, language and second language, the piece looks at the struggle to communicate and to navigate as an immigrant in the US, and as a human in the virtual realm. 

The audio and text piece use humor in combining texts of the Executive Order 13769 (Muslim Ban) with Fun Facts about the United States and excerpts from The book Society Of The Spectacle by Guy Debord as a strategy to highlight the absurdity of this order and the inhumane political laws that were put in place during Trump’s presidency on 7 Muslim majority countries.