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A Glimpse of the Mind Landscapes

A GLIMPSE OF THE MIND LANDSCAPES

VR headset is no longer a media device, it is a “brain plugin” for our human mind. Illusory fragments start turning into full “mind landscapes,” like layers of consciousness being uploaded and reshaped.

Inside the doctor’s lab, three different brain plug-ins lead participants into three distinct dimensions of reality, each one shifting how they see, feel, and understand the world.

Type: Commission, The Proto-ocean for Co-consciousness, Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) Taipei
Role: Artist / Experience Designer / Installation Designer
VR Specs: Meta Quest 2 / Single User
Work 1 & 2: PC VR / 6-DoF / 10 minutes
Work 3: VR360 / 3 minutes
Production Duration: 8 months

● CONCEPT

"A Glimpse of the Mind Landscapes" is a three-piece VR installation series. The design aims to explore human consciousness through VR, based on the Philosophy of Mind. Viewers will wear three different types of "brain plugins" and enter various mind landscapes, where they will experience somatosensory feedback that is distinct from what humans are currently capable of perceiving on their own. The lab is infinitely expansive. As the viewer installs each brain plugin, their consciousness encounters countless possibilities and traverses opposites. In this highly reflective mirrored space, are the images that appear in their mind real or illusionary? What if the other side of reality is not "virtual"; instead, it's unreal? Could virtuality be a new form of reality? Has reality been lost in the reflection?

Plugin 01

Consciousness lives inside our bodies. Even though our skin is always renewing itself...

Plugin 02

Transport your mind to another virtual body, and be able to put on new limbs to transform into a brand-new self.
It responds to the central question: “If a man changes his body, is he still who he was?”

Plugin 03

This is the highest-level mind landscape. It is like a journey to completely free your mind from the limitations of bodily vehicles.
You will fly through a sequence of life forms, from the microcosm to the macrocosm, which provides the imagination of how the soul experiences the world.

A GLIMPSE OF THE MIND LANDSCAPES

Artist: CURIOSKI (Li Yi-Ho, Cheng Yi-Ting)
Project Manager: Cheng Yi-Ting
Installation Design: Li Yi-Ho
Experience Design: Li Yi-Ho
Concept Design: Cheng Yi-Ting
3D Artist: THEING
Programmer: Jerry Su
Sound Design: Ihsuan Lin

Supported by:
MoCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) Taipei

2022