{"id":339,"date":"2014-05-02T12:23:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T16:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/yang-wang\/"},"modified":"2014-05-12T08:27:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T12:27:20","slug":"yang-wang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/yang-wang\/","title":{"rendered":"Sukhavati"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>Yang Wang<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>An art installation that creates a virtual reality world for people to encounter and become spectators of themselves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sukhavati.be\/\">http:\/\/sukhavati.be\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/itp-thesis.s3.amazonaws.com\/yw1080-1398803790\/title_2.png\" width=\"80%\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Description<\/h3>\n<p>Using an Oculus Rift headset, Kinect and EEG sensor, Sukhavati creates a virtual world that allows the viewer to observe her\/himself from an alternate angle. The viewer is immersed in a parallel reality that resembles the same physical room the viewer sits in, quietly observing his\/her own image composed from thousands of pixel particles. When the viewer loses the state of deep relaxation, his\/her self-image transforms into numerous particles that flows freely in the room.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Sukhavati is an exploration about the question &quot;What is the true-self? Is that possible for people to live without ego?&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yang Wang An art installation that creates a virtual reality world for people to encounter and become spectators of themselves. http:\/\/sukhavati.be\/ Description Using an Oculus Rift headset, Kinect and EEG sensor, Sukhavati creates a virtual world that allows the viewer to observe her\/himself from an alternate angle. The viewer is immersed in a parallel reality &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/yang-wang\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sukhavati<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gabe-barcia-colombo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}