purgatory EDIT
A user-generated montage-based VR experience and cinematic installation, built on an archive of moving images representative of histories of violence.
At the core of the project is an archive of moving images representative of histories of violence, a visual semiotic research and analysis process, and an immersive participation-driven Cyber Performance.
It invites participants to use a created brain interface to investigate a media archive of conflict and violence through their own emotional, neurological and cognitive agency. Through this engagement, participants facilitate the generating of peer-to-peer prompts, where participants and the digital software-as-artwork create metabolic data as cybernetic feedback loops that circulate and cement human-machine-algorithmic knowledges and biases.
In times where violence, conflict, and trauma are normalised as everyday happenings, purgatory EDIT performs the task of critical storytelling.