a hectic, invigorating, violently positive and painfully honest self-improvement VR rabbit-hole

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PPAktd6Jw9O1W8PHhHO0VGTCdC220e2igtCbZMkM13k/edit?usp=sharing

Description

“Relax.

Relax!

Breathe.

Sit still.

Are you still?

You are actually moving at great speed around the Earth, around the Sun, around the Milky Way, and through the universe.

Faster than riding a unicorn, on a skateboard, on a cheetah, in a bugatti, on a rocket!

Isn’t it amazing that you can breathe at all?!

So breathe!”

Step into the Meditation Tunnel: a mind-bending, hypnotic, exhilarating experience that pushes beyond the boundaries of VR.

The way to ride the Meditation Tunnel is via a VR headset, while seated on a unicorn in a magical transformative environment. While the main pinnacle of the Meditation Tunnel happens within the headset, it’s certainly not limited to it. Enhanced with projection art, custom-made headset and glitter-icious set design, Meditation Tunnel is as much a performance as much as it is a VR meditation. The viewer is guided to breathe, smile and speak, and their mere participation turns into a spectacle. Meditation tunnel suggests a digital, new-age, New-York, cerebral approach to guided meditation. The entire experience, from the first step into the environment is immersive, rich with audio-visual stimuli crafted to elevate, energize, enlighten, and shake the viewer to the core.

Watch the full, updated render of the tunnel here: https://youtu.be/wReM9uw5NSs

Classes

Open Source Cinema, The Poetics of Space

A vibrator that rewards you for creativity, battery charged by making art.

https://pleasureprincipal.me

Description

This speculative proof of concept explores how behavioral intervention and self-tracking can stimulate creativity, literally. By tuning erotic reward toward art-making, we can recursively elevate both art and pleasure toward the virtue of bringing more imagination into the world, and honor the sexual response system for its purpose of creation. When a user interacts with the drawing app, their time spent doodling is sent to a database which translates to a number of minutes the device will power for.

Classes

Quantified Humanists: Designing Personal Data, Rest of You