Premised Land
YoonJi Yang
We often hypothesize in our lives through premises beginning with “what if...” Jean Baudrillard in Simulacra and Simulation inspires the audience to view the world in a new way by asking the question: What if everything we observe is artificial? What if everything we have considered real is actually not? Should we ponder the idea that we're living in a virtual reality world?
Premised Land collects visual explorations of the boundaries between reality and hypothetical digital creation. These virtual reality works are based on irregularity: a new vision of the digital medium. Using cutting-edge technologies, my collection showcases multiple digital creations in a range of various art forms. Together, they are displayed in a virtual gallery by New Art City. The virtual exhibition allows accessing digital art together with other audience members and moving around a game-like space. It presents pieces that alter the audience’s expectations and open their eyes to what fundamental natural objects might be in another zone. It also depicts a representation of a metahuman avatar using the method of projection mapping to approach spatial augmented reality.
As visitors guide themselves through and interact with Premised Land, they are initiated into an alternate reality and introduced to the possibility of viewing through the lens of simulation theory.