User:Louisa/Final Presentation

Final Presentation

Background

I am a Rotterdam based digital artist working with themes around gaming and the effect of new technologies on the player's perception of reality. By analysing gameplay methods and implementing them into real-life settings, I am creating scenarios in which the viewer turns into the protagonist of an interactive fictional narrative.

Hybrid Games and Events

There's Something I've Been Meaning To Tell You

October 2020

Climb the Firewall

December 2020

I Have No Idea Where We're Going/IRL ENERGY

April 2021

Earthrise

May 2021

Cybernetic Dreams

October 2021

EtherAxis

November 2021

Graduation

Thesis Research: Asphalt Spur

Project: 868 MHz

Narrative

XPUB Grad 868 MHz is a hybrid reality game running on the same standardized frequency as the LoRa gateways of The Things Network.

Rotterdam is one of many cities world-wide in the process of building an Urban Data Platform (UDP), a sort of mirror world of real-time data collected in public space via smart devices. A major facilitator of this development is The Things Network, a global IoT Network connecting thousands of sensors through long range radio transmission. From lampposts to advertisement screens, sourced information is not only collected, but can be processed and fed back into the city streets to adjust spaces and manipulate citizens' movement through them. 868 MHz suggests a player's mod of this framework of scattered, hidden devices feeding into one central server.

Chase the electric currents of the asphalt to locate gateways and encounter a being which has nested itself beneath the city streets, all the way down the power lines woven amidst to its whirring epicentre. Encased in its concrete and metal armour, lie the keys to the pulsating veins of a mirror world. Whatever makes it inside its bloodstream, will travel fast and eternally through the nexus of time and space it occupies in that instant.

Prototyping

Exhibition