n=7 The Wake of Heat in Collapse

source: arthaps

SIGNAL is pleased to present Rachel Rossin’s “n=7 / The Wake in Heat of Collapse,” a virtual reality simulation that employs the structure of side-scrolling game play to create an immersive, Oculus Rift-based experience.

Descending into a 3-dimensional Dantesque underworld, the viewer navigates a landscape of hacked architectural and video game imagery, algorithmic collages generated from famous paintings (e.g. Guernica and Klimt’s The Kiss), corporate signage, browser logos and clippings from scenic destinations. These radiant environments provide participants with a window to sights unseen, and culminate with the experience of witnessing a crumbling staircase made of Susan Sontag’s “Against Interpretation.”

An homage to the mock-fragility of life as a video game character, the participants of n=7 will experience gravity as a variable force as it diminishes from each level according to a compounding sequence of Fibonacci numbers. The installation will last for one night only, and players will have their gameplay displayed at SIGNAL in real time.
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source: newincorg

Rachel Rossin is a Virtual Reality Fellow in residence at NEW INC. She is a multimedia artist who works in painting, installation, and programming to investigate the disparate realities of the physical and digital. Her current body of work mines CAD and virtual-reality spatial relationships, translating them into oil paintings and allowing the subject matter and medium to coalesce in a feedback loop. Rossin’s recent solo shows have been held at Signal, Brooklyn; SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York; SchoolHouse Projects with IDEAS CITY, New York; and the Cummer Museum, Jacksonville, Florida. Her virtual reality work was recently reviewed in the New York Times.