Dystopia Trilogy
WebVR trilogy — "New Normal," "Covid-19," "Lockdown" · browser-native, no headset required · 2021
Three environments built during global lockdown, each one a place a visitor can enter and not quite orient inside. Scanned fragments of Melbourne streets drift on a black ground; disembodied hands and an eye assemble into something that is nearly a body; photogrammetric shopfronts curve away from the viewer at the wrong angle.
The trilogy was made to run in a browser rather than on dedicated hardware, so that work about isolation could actually reach people who were isolated.
- Year
- 2021
- Medium
- WebVR trilogy — three works: "New Normal," "Covid-19," "Lockdown"; browser-native, no headset required
- Presented
- ICAD XI "PUBLIK," Jakarta, with Institut Français d'Indonésie / Culture VR · Piksel Festival, Bergen · International Computer Music Conference 2021, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile · BEAST FEaST "Recalibration," University of Birmingham
- Recording
- Audio version released 14 August 2021 — "New Normal (binaural)" 7:41 · "Covid-19 (binaural)" 6:01 · "Lockdown (stereo)" 6:17
- Video
- youtube.com/watch?v=HuoUVKb45Tk
- Listen
- patrickhartono.bandcamp.com — Dystopia Trilogy (audio version) 2020–2021
Scanned and photogrammetric environments from the trilogy. "Covid-19" was also presented separately at BEAST FEaST 2021.