Claire Jervert, Real Worlding

About the video:
In a series of vignettes, we take a little trip to a real-life billionaire bunker, located 200 ft. (61 meters) below ground.  From the entrance, surrounded by a desolate wasteland, and then into a descending elevator, we visit the living room/kitchen, the "aquaponics farm," and finally the "beach."  The individual sequences were created by recording what was being viewed through a VR headset while experiencing 360-degree videos that were shot in the bunker.  The title, "Real Worlding," seeks to draw a contrast between a number of current virtual/metaverse experiences that tend more toward optimistic speculative futures, rather than investigating the unsettling near-implausibility of our current reality.  Behind it all are two disturbing feelings: the unlikelihood of ever leaving this place in the event of its utilization and, perhaps more pertinent, where you yourself are likely to be in such a situation.

5'08", color, sound, 2024.
 

About the artist :

Claire Jervert is a multi-disciplinary artist and AI researcher working with emerging technologies XR,  AI,  robotics and also traditional materials. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States and internationally, including: Annka Kultys Gallery, London, UK; Lincoln Center, New York; Streaming Museum and World Council of Peoples for the United Nations, New York; International Symposium of Electronic Art, Hong Kong; Art Basel/Miami Design, Miami, FL; MTV Momentum Technology Videos Film Festival, Institute of Women and Art, Rutgers University, NJ; AR (Augmented Reality) Intervention, Thin Air Gallery, Bushwick, NY; and Sirve Verse, La Paternal Project Space, Buenos Aires, AR. She is a former member of the Stevens Institute of Technology Advisory Committee on Art and Technology who has received awards from the MidAtlantic Arts Foundation, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Bronx Museum.  

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