Gallery installation of Free Space Loss, Galerie B-312 Montreal.2010
FreeSpaceLoss.2009. Toronto
FreeSpaceLoss.2009.
FreeSpaceLoss.2009. Germany
In Free Space Loss my interest is in inverting the perceptual space of Virtual Reality rather than adhering to it. To highlight the illusion I concentrate on the construction of the HMD and the image. The HMD is a low-fi D.I.Y. apparatus that uses sensory deprivation to isolate the eyes and ears from the rest of the body in the gallery. While sitting in the chairs and wearing the helmets the participants' positions are fixed and the apparatus begins to define the experience rather than the participants themselves.
Each HMD is outfitted with a LCD monitor and a set of sensors measuring heat and light levels. Displayed on the LCDs is a panoramic image of the local cityscape suspended in a 3-D environment. As the viewers wear the HMDs they become linked to a network where their physiological outputs are tracked, measured and then sent to a computer software program which, using methods comparable to gaming and scientific computer modelling, alters the panoramic image.
Free Space Loss screen shot
Free Space Loss screen shot
Free Space Loss screen shot
