Mindscape
Mindscape is a virtual world of digital objects which have connections to me, with narrated explanations – I own them, or they were gifts or inherited, I made them, or I just liked the way they looked.
Dr James Bragg
Fine Art 2021
Download Mindscape - a virtual world from https://jamesbragg.itch.io/mindscape
I am interested in how digital objects can have meaning attached to them in a similar way that physical objects do. I have been exploring what objects can mean to people and to what extent they can express a person’s memories, relationships, and character.
The imagination is vital to being human and imaginary worlds have a significant place in our lives and societies. Virtual reality technology gives us new ways of visualising our imagination and also deconstructs the process by which we perceive reality.
I am working on various techniques to make representations in digital based on information from the real such as photogrammetry and tracking movements. I also have been moving objects from the digital into the physical through 3D additive printing and casting. Often data has passed between the digital and real a number of times with various distortions accumulating.
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Mindscape
This world can be viewed and explored on a PC or Mac computer screen, but also can be experienced in full 3D with a Oculus Quest2 headset.
Mindscape
Views from within Mindscape.
Mindscape - projected
In a gallery or room setting Mindscape can be displayed using multiple projectors, stereo speakers and an Xbox controller. This is a more communal experience with a more natural interface.
Publication - James Bragg
Please download a short publication outlining my art practice.