INDRANET
The yurt or ger is the nomad's house by definition. Indranet is a piece developed in colaboration with artist and architect Nuno Mika. In this piece, the frontier between virtual and augmented reality is diluted.
Indranet refers to the Art of Memory, a recurrent theme of my personal investigation.
We worked with the concept of the memory disk and built a circular space, a container of memories - a house of memory (Domus memoria).
In the physical space, a circle on the ground marks the position of the symbols in the digital space and creates a bridge between the real and the virtual.
The house and the mandala are symbols of the archetype of 'Self' and mandalas are used not only as concentration and encoding of mythological narratives, but as technologies for creating and navigation through the palaces of memory - reminiscent of the mechanisms used by Raymond Llul and Giordano Bruno.
The spirits discuss themes essential to human condition: memories, origins, death, God, war.
In Hindu and Buddhist traditions, the physical world is an illusion - Maya - an holography beyond which the real universe manifests itself in its infinitude.
In each drop of Indra's Web we see the reflection of all the other drops until infinity.
In the same way, in each person that takes the role of the Traveler, we see ourselves and the reflection of mankind as a whole.
Indranet, 2019
virtual reality installation w/
video (37 min) captured with 360º camera
300 x 300 x 400 cm