Interactive Mixed Reality Installation
Quest 3 MR headset and analog tree sculpture | 5 x 5 m
Novocene unfolds an interactive narrative about the development of humanity in the Anthropocene, the age entirely dominated and shaped by mankind. It also deals with resource consumption and environmental destruction in the present and contrasts this with a utopian vision of the future.
Even the climate crisis becomes tangible in its ultimate consequence when, at a certain point in the narrative, the real environment sinks into a virtually rising sea level. Until then, the story takes an interested and critical look at the role of technology and AI in solving the ultimate challenge of humanity.
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At first, a pair of mixed reality glasses lies inconspicuously on a tree stump in the exhibition space. The felled tree is an improvised construction made from temporary materials such as wood, cardboard and plastic. Viewed through the headset, it unexpectedly sprouts young, virtual shoots and branches and grows to new life. As the plot unfolds around this tree sculpture, the viewer can construct a monument for an alternative future from the artefacts and totems of a proverbially lost civilization.
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