Physical Reality Devices

Physical Reality Devices are framing tools, touchable and usable art objects that suggest an intensification of the act of seeing and a questioning of one’s own perception. As a work-in-progress the series of Devices is developed further hand-in-hand with a performative walk in public space.

During a research funding of the Fonds Daku, field tests in public spaces reflected site-specifically on interactions and contents that could be dealt with on the audio level. As a result, audio pieces about seeing and the biological and cultural-historical construction of perspective are interwoven into the walk to different public spaces.

The user becomes a performer, examining they* real environment as if through VR glasses, which is recomposed in the devices. Inside Physical Reality Devices the gaze is redirected and recomposed by mirrors. We see what would not be visible from one’s own point of view without these tools.

The first Physical Reality Devices were conceived for the A.I.R. „digital framework“ by TRIALE, in Gallmannsegg, 2022