A S T R O G A T E
“To
navigate through space.”
The aim of this project was to create an online
exhibition that directly investigates the in-between spaces where the digital,
physical and fictional overlap and interest. Throughout the website, visual
imagery has been designed to address contemporary life through the exploration
of ‘virtual’ spaces and question ‘what is our current experience of reality?’
The online exhibition opens the door to an alternative dimension, displaying
visual spectacles of breath-taking theatrical quality and technical skill.
Astrogate seeks to create an immersive
experience of cinematic quality, translating narrative and connecting to its
audience on an emotional level.
In the contemporary world we inhabit today, the
digital revolution has led to a shift in human perception, altering the dynamic
of our everyday experience. Technology is used as a tool to connect ‘fiction’
and ‘reality’.
The creation of Astrogate touches upon our
increasing dependence on the virtual world of the Internet; the place in which
we inhabit today is something similar to a shadowy mirror space where two
worlds collide. When these two separates; virtual and reality meet, what do we
experience? One could argue that both these worlds are actually real, as the
virtual digital world defiantly has an genuine impact on our physical lives.
But for my purposes I would like to establish that this in-between space -
which I want to define as the expanded mirror space we exist in most of the
time nowadays - is a real space. It is this mirror-space, this land of the in-between
that is visualized through out the exhibition. The mirror is after all, a
utopia, since it is a placeless place. We see our self there where we are not,
in the illusion of another space, which opens up beneath the surface of
technology.
The enfolded nature of the surface and sometimes
the generative abyss, which lies beneath, is communicated by medium of visual
language. J.G Ballard suggests this new dimension of reality can be understood
as "as kind of collective lucid dreaming."
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