低級自由

2021 / 15 min VR interactive installation2021 / 15 分鐘, VR 互動裝置

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“Low-Life” is a VR immersive experience of being a cockroach visiting a human kitchen. The audience will go through different routes based on the direction their VR helmet spins. The installation is a modified chair with three kinds of vibration devices: antenna, wings, and cerci, which imitate the feedback mechanism that cockroaches use to receive external messages.

The work is divided into two parts: VR images (what you see), and somatosensory devices (what you feel). The audience can explore the kitchen from a microscopic perspective, letting the cockroach become the narrator of human living space. It also uses VR to connect the relationship between people and cockroaches, and try to open up the audience's daily imagination of the cockroach community, so that the audience can observe the symbiotic state of cockroaches, humans, and other creatures in the kitchen.


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低級自由是以蟑螂視角在廚房遊覽的VR體感沉浸體驗。VR內容將透過定點計算頭盔旋轉方向來決定行徑路線。特殊設計的座椅設有頭部、背部、臀部的體感震動反饋，對應到蟑螂的觸角、翅膀、尾毛，來模擬蟑螂的感受。

作品分為兩個部份：VR影像（所見）、體感裝置（所感）：藉由蟑螂的帶領，讓觀眾能以微觀視角與昆蟲身體來探索廚房裡上演的低視野事件，讓蟑螂成為人類生活空間的敘事主角。也藉由VR作為連結人與蟑螂關係的載體，試圖打開觀眾對蟑螂社群的日常想像，使觀眾能觀摩蟑螂與人類、與其他生物在廚房共生的狀態。

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