Electric Fields, 2023
Collaborative VR Community Composition

Electric Fields is a participatory community composition that takes place in a web browser or VR format. Upon entering the space, visitors are surrounded by 3D renderings of spring flowers that rose between the cracks of Berlin’s city sidewalk. Nature's refusal to be reduced to binary codes has left their figures gnarled, knotted, and incomplete. Each bloom holds an electromagnetic recording taken from nearby. Visitors are encouraged to “pick” a flower and adjust its corresponding volume to determine its space in the arrangement. What results is a collaborative playfulness which encourages listening and engagement as integral contributors to our attunement to one another and our environment.

This work was produced as part of the Social VR Art Camp Residency.