Waiting for the Wave in Metaverse

OVERVIEW | ARTWORKS | ARTISTS | DAC

Waiting for the Wave in Metaverse
Artist(s):
Midori Yamazaki
Yves Leterrier
Junya Taguchi
Sandeep Virdi
Category: Installation Art, Virtual Reality, and 3D Model
Year Produced: 2023
Artwork Description:

The artwork is a three-dimensional reproduction of the momentary shape of a wave in perfect shape, ideal for surfing, which retains its aesthetically pleasing shape forever at the overlapped boundaries between physical space and virtual space. It attempts to generate an experience in nature with its audience by presenting it and the artwork reaffirms the supple strength of human cognitive abilities and expresses a sense of human existence that will remain unchanged forever, even in a future where reality is in chaos.

The artwork was created through a playful creative process that moves between physical space and digitally generated virtual space. It enables us to reproduce the moment of a shape of a well-formed endless wave, that is aesthetically pleasing and gives us pleasant confusion at the same time. It presents the fleeting moment of a wave, a form of natural force by blending human hand-creation, which generates randomness, with ocean physics, which always works correctly, in the blurred boundaries of physical and virtual. And by constituting interaction experiences between human beings and nature in the space and reaffirming our identity from a trans-human perspective, like meditation, we can ensure that our sense of being is forever unchanged.

Modern technology makes it easy to replicate visual representations that are indistinguishable from reality. The metaverse has become one of the spaces in which we humans exist, and the definition of existence is being distorted. However, we live in ever-changing times and continue to evolve, recognising and accepting flexibly the chaos of reality and the unreality that technology brings with positive hope.

Relation to the Theme:

The relevance of this project to the online exhibition theme ‘The Future of Reality’ is the consideration of the living experience related to the overlapped boundaries between physical space and virtual space. The artwork is a three-dimensional reproduction of the momentary shape of a wave in perfect shape, ideal for surfing, which retains its aesthetically pleasing shape forever at the overlapped boundaries between physical space and virtual space. By constituting interaction experiences between human beings and nature in the blurred space and reaffirming our identity from a trans-human perspective, like meditation, we can ensure that our sense of being is forever unchanged. This artwork makes a strong declaration that we live both participatory and reactively in ever-changing times as the theme explains, and continue to evolve, recognising and accepting flexibly the chaos of reality and the unreality that technology brings with positive hope.

Documentation: View PDF

Additional Images:

© © © ©