The VR exprience can be downloaded from Steam.
Please check out the latest review by BBC.
Credits:
Artist & Creative Director - Jingjing Shen
Developer - Cody Wren. Music / Sound - Michael Tree. Producer - David Tree
Exec Producer - Peter Richardson, Joseph Amoah - BBC RnD
New Creatives South East Producer - Jo Nolan
Supported by:
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‘Singularity’ is an immersive virtual reality experience that combines technologies including 3D scanning, head-mounted display, and immersive sound design. The inspiration for this work grows from the artist's personal experience of living in an accelerating digitized world. The artist creatively associates the relationship between racing games and Moore's Law, also The Law of Accelerating Returns that appeared in the human’s technology development history. In racing games, users can usually accelerate by collecting props. According to The Law of Accelerating Returns, every time new technology is invented, the acceleration curve rose exponentially. The two phenomena coincide. This work uses the rationale of racing game as the basis of designing the experience’s structure. The audience will be able to explore many technical metaphors that we once used, as well as ones we are currently using, including mobile phones, Bluetooth, Information superhighway, chatbots, etc. The audience will experience the accelerating virtual reality world through observing and collecting the metaphors, and finally achieve the "singularity".
Technology advancements are occurring faster and faster in an increasingly digital world. Ray Kurzweil claims that the singularity will happen by 2045. Steven Shaviro states that ‘like it or not, we are all accelerationists now'. Based on research on the history of technology and the culture of speed, ‘Singularity’, an immersive and interactive VR experience, attempts to visualize the singularity which is approaching at an accelerated rate and invites the audience to rethink the relationship between living organisms and inorganic intelligence.
Please check out the latest review by BBC.
Credits:
Artist & Creative Director - Jingjing Shen
Developer - Cody Wren. Music / Sound - Michael Tree. Producer - David Tree
Exec Producer - Peter Richardson, Joseph Amoah - BBC RnD
New Creatives South East Producer - Jo Nolan
Supported by:
‘Singularity’ is an immersive virtual reality experience that combines technologies including 3D scanning, head-mounted display, and immersive sound design. The inspiration for this work grows from the artist's personal experience of living in an accelerating digitized world. The artist creatively associates the relationship between racing games and Moore's Law, also The Law of Accelerating Returns that appeared in the human’s technology development history. In racing games, users can usually accelerate by collecting props. According to The Law of Accelerating Returns, every time new technology is invented, the acceleration curve rose exponentially. The two phenomena coincide. This work uses the rationale of racing game as the basis of designing the experience’s structure. The audience will be able to explore many technical metaphors that we once used, as well as ones we are currently using, including mobile phones, Bluetooth, Information superhighway, chatbots, etc. The audience will experience the accelerating virtual reality world through observing and collecting the metaphors, and finally achieve the "singularity".
Technology advancements are occurring faster and faster in an increasingly digital world. Ray Kurzweil claims that the singularity will happen by 2045. Steven Shaviro states that ‘like it or not, we are all accelerationists now'. Based on research on the history of technology and the culture of speed, ‘Singularity’, an immersive and interactive VR experience, attempts to visualize the singularity which is approaching at an accelerated rate and invites the audience to rethink the relationship between living organisms and inorganic intelligence.
Exhibition View at Asia Digital Art Exhibition, Times Art Museum, BeijIng (2021)
Exhibition View at Wuhan Biennale, Qintai Art Museum, Wuhan (2022-2023)