REALITY COIL

CONTENT WARNING: reference to current events/news cycle

Inspired by Plato’s Allegory of the Cave we explore how our discourse with the world through the internet and social media has transformed and dictated our perceived reality. Exacerbated by Covid lockdowns, which have kept many of us confined for over a year, we seek to analyze the bubble of information that ultimately traps us inside a feedback loop created by machine learning algorithms and our own biases.

Your input coalesces with all viewers, resulting in an output reached by consensus which dictates the experience for everyone. The experience is ever changing within the parameters set by the audience. Open the live stream link on a separate device or computer and continue to input responses on your phone.

Created by Ali Phi & Nat Janin

Ali Website: http://aliphi.com/
Instagram: @ali_phi

Nat Website: http://natjanin.com
Instagram: @natjanin

Ali Phi (b. 1987, Tehran, Iran) is a computer artist & creative technologist with a background in environmental engineering sciences & experimental cinematic arts. His work is based on programming, generative audio-visual design, interactive media & immersive environment installations which depict the relation between geometry, science, light, poetry and their transformations in computer & interaction with humans. Exploring rituals & roots in art, culture and architecture have affected his creations by taking motifs from the old era of Persia, the forgotten essence of Iran & middle-eastern lifestyle to build his futuristic utopia. He is the founder of 'NULLSIGHT', a media arts collective and freelance festival curator of ‘TADAEX’ since 2014. He has performed and exhibited in Ars Electronica, Mutek, Tasmeem Doha, Patchlab, Tadaex & Tehran Architecture Biennial across Iran, Canada, USA, Germany, Austria, Poland, Qatar & UAE.

Nat Janin (b. 1986 Toronto, Canada) is a creative director specializing in digital and experiential narratives. She also has a background in general sciences and the performing arts, including aerial circus arts. Utilizing data, responsive light structures, and real-time rendering she has created visual narratives, interactive installations, and immersive experiences for some of the world’s leading agencies and companies such as Jam3, Jackman, Intel, Microsoft, Royal Bank of Canada, Facebook and Postmates. Her artwork has been featured at the Gladstone Hotel, Xpace Gallery, OCADU and Workman Arts in Toronto, Canada. She seeks to expand the discourse between art and the viewer through collaborative means. A creative misfit, her personal work is inspired by paradoxes, fragmented memories, unseen realities, and connections across seemingly opposing worlds. She combines the dynamic and fluid nature of dance with the foundations of data, geometry, and architecture.

Together Nat and Ali combine expertise in interactive digital narrative through projection mapping, installation, music, performance, real-time and web-based experiences.