Vitrails
“The artworks presented during the festival make us reflect on contemporary problems such as the modern refugee crisis (VitRails by Collectif Continuum)", says Elwira Wojtunik, the Artistic Director of Patchlab Festival.
VitRails is a virtual reality installation which uses a thermochromic interface in order to create a multisensory experience.
While most VR installations play with vision as the primary input, VitRails plays with touch and other sensory inputs like temperature to enrich mixed reality experiences. Through this experience the participant is witnessing a constant passage from the real world to virtual and vice versa.
The participant, who wears a VR casque is immersed in a dark room. He cannot see anything around him. Unless he touches the real walls of his surrounding, he will be trapped in this dark room. Through VitRails users find themselves caught up in a hybrid space, where matter and spirit, though diverse realities, compete. Stuck between two worlds, their perception is questioned, creating a magical experience.
Past Exhibitions
2018 Recto VRso IN-LavalVirtual,Laval,France
2018 Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece
2019Patchlab Digital Art Festival, Krakow, Poland
Ongoing
23-25 June 2023, Palais Augmenté 3, Paris, France
