Temporal World
Generative, Haptisonic VR Experience Premieres 20 January at silent green
»Temporal World« is a generative, haptisonic VR experience in which artist Chloé Lee reflects on making meaning in places with varying levels of connection to her; from the personal, to the familial to the foreign. We are guided to slow down while exploring Berlin and beyond in our increasingly accelerated time. As an Asian-American artist, she explores themes of migration through discovery, documentation and, eventually, rooting herself in a new place.
This VR world emphasizes the ephemerality of memory. Visitors explore and shape the landscape that is as fragmented and fickle as memory itself while wearing a custom haptic jacket that adds sensation to the typical audiovisual VR experience. These new ways of sensing, and in turn understanding, help create a more nuanced understanding of our interactions and, often invisible, dynamics within our environments.
When
Friday, January 20th, 6:00-9:30 pm
Where
Silent Green Kulturquartier, Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin.
Temporal World is in Atelier 1 (the glass windowed studios on the 2nd floor)
After Party
Panke Culture, Hof V, Gerichtstraße 23, 13347 Berlin
This presentation runs as a part of »Vorspiel«, a citywide program of events before and during the »Transmediale« and »CTM« festivals.
The project will also be available for the public to experience at OKK from January 21 st to February 5th. Please book an appointment.
More information on Vorspiel and the project.
Temporal World. Copyright: Chloé Lee
The artist acknowledges the support of the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity. Image Space Material« especially the projects »Cutting« and »Object Space Agency« funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy – EXC 2025 – 390648296.
Director/Producer: Chloé Lee, VR Experience Developer: Lucas Martinic
The Temporal World Haptic Jacket was inspired by the Haptic Hanbok developed by Fardin Gholami, Yoonha Kim and Maxime Le Calvé for the Stretching Materialities exhibition at Tieranatomisches Theater.
The original Temporal World garment was created with the aim to recreate Chloe Lee’s personal vibrational experience.
Garment Designer/Fabricator: Dru Blumensheid of Bumesi, Hardware Engineer: Mohammed Fardin Gholami,
Custom haptic sensations composed by Chloé Lee while wearing the Temporal World jacket.
Special thanks to Victor Minces for advising on spectrogram sound integration to optimize instrument sound creation; Isaac Munoz for advising on sound design for virtual reality; Kara Lynch for support on development of experience design and project management; Julia Blumenthal for advising on fabrication of exhibition installation
Original project proposal selected and backed by the Fulbright Program, and the project began in New York in the Integrated Media Arts, Master of Fine Arts program at Hunter College, A City University of New York. Additional support from the New Media Caucus for the 2022 microgrant.
silent green Kulturquartier
Gerichtstraße 35
13347 Berlin