Ania Catherine and Dejha Ti’s seminal immersive experiential artwork, ‘On View,’ commissioned by the SCAD Museum of Art, examines how art experiences generate in today’s audiences the wish for themselves to be its subject, and how addictive interfaces, surveillance capitalism, and data privacy in modern society informs this phenomenon. ‘On View’ is both socio-political critique and an experiment in art and technology: it illuminates the forces shaping our everyday realities and offers audience-participants a way into a critical conversation on the digital architectures we all inhabit, and it shows the imperative for tech literacy, especially as technology becomes increasingly invisible. Immersion via nuanced human-computer interaction creates a world that elicits feelings and knowledge, imprinted in physical memory.

‘On View' allows audience-participants to interact with a virtual world with no virtual layer—a novel form of mixed reality—as they move through the installation’s three spaces:

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The installation appears to be non-digital—but it’s the opposite. It relies on a ubiquitous network of technology, using TouchDesigner as a mainbrain integrating real-time facial recognition (AI subsets: computer vision & machine learning); voice commands; microprocessor devices/objects; environment-embedded sensors; kinetics; and guest profile generation. The technology is embedded both conceptually and technically into the backdrop of the experience—a critical nod to the misuse of pervasive computing and IoT. Knowingly hyperbolic, the piece demonstrates how small and frequent choices in our daily lives make us extremely vulnerable–like unknowingly training facial recognition systems, or clicking “I agree” to a T&C we never read.