Mind Figures

VR INSTALLATION

We live in a time where our digital identities are almost as important as our physical ones. Social networks and online videogames give us the control to share whatever side of us we want to show the world. However, the installation ‘Mind Figures’ takes away this control by turning someone’s digital identity into an independent character.

In this installation you can generate a character based on your personality and release it into a constantly updating virtual world. By answering a set of personality questions, a ‘Mind Figure’ will be created. Next, you’ll be able to meet your Mind Figment in virtual reality and set it free in the virtual world where every character is stored.

Together the Mind Figments fill and shape their world like we did with ours.

CONCEPT & DESIGNS:
IRIS VAN DER MEULE & QUINTUS GLERUM

3D ARTIST & MOTION DESIGNER:
MAURITZ SEERDEN

CREATIVE CODER:
TIJMEN MEIJER

EXHIBITIONS:

Dutch Design Week, 21 – 29 October 2017
Playgrounds The Art Department, 5 & 6 October 2017
Playgrounds Sessions #3, 18 May 2017
Silent Buildings, 1 – 3 June 2017