Is your body yours?

2020 Tokyo University of the Arts Graduation Exhibition art work

Artist : Yuto Hayashi

media : VR installation

reference : Jon Rafman's interview : “Virtual Reality Sickness” / Wolfgang Tillmans “Your body is yours”

▼You sense another “self” of you. At the moment, whose body does it become?

As I have been growing up, the world has turned to more complex. Now many things can be replaced with data. The boundary between the real and the virtual is melting into schizophrenic haze. In 2019, I met VR. It was a shocking loss in the sense that the human body as well as the first-person view is forced to be replaced with data at last.

In my VR artwork, you sense another “self” of yours. At the moment, whose body does it become? I try to comprehend the ambiguous self while crossing the boundary between the real and the virtual.

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IS YOUR BODY YOURS?