Virtual Transparencies

 

Virtual Transparencies reimagines Constant's theoretical 'New Babylon' in modern day New York City. It speculates on a virtual infrastructural network that is created by the complex array of reflections in the urban landscape. The project is a virtual, spatial fantasy in which metric distance is suspended and obliterated. The videos are created to be viewed with Google Cardboard, or other virtual reality headsets. The final presentation in Hartel Gallery at Cornell University was done entirely in virtual reality, transporting the critics to the project in New York City, and also transforming Hartel Gallery itself into a site of virtual transparencies.

Created to be viewed with VR