The VR installation „My view“ invites each viewer to immerse themselves in a haunting vision of the future. A mix of images and sounds are projected alternately onto five virtual screens, forcing the viewer to constantly turn around in an office chair. The impossibility of escaping the images and the haunting Ambisonics soundtrack add to the immersive, at times alienating experience. There is a narrator in the film who speaks directly to the viewer with commands and instructions.

The narrator is a ghost and will haunt us. In everyday life we hear voices, we see things like suddenly appearing virtual places, beings and situations that force us to interact with them. We cannot avoid them – unless we become a better, more moral and ethical person. Through the use of AR, hallucinations from drugs or direct manipulation of our brainwaves, we will no longer be able to distinguish between reality and ghostly interaction. This will change the way we interact with and perceive the world. These interactions come from transhuman beings, the successors of humanity, who live in a virtual way, that is, independent of bodies. They have a mission for humanity: to haunt us in order to make us better subjects. Our current political dilemmas and problems are nothing compared to being haunted and harassed by moral poltergeists run by virtual humans.

Everyday scenes in Europe and the US are transformed into uncanny, poetically political scenes to convey the voices of transhumans and images of our troubled world by appealing to the viewer’s subconscious. The viewer’s point of view with the Oculus is not private, however, as other visitors can follow his gaze in real time on a monitor – although they cannot hear the mind’s commands.

Text by Patrick Alan Banfield