OUROBOROS: Uncanny Jolts Through Mixed Reality and Back Again
OUROBOROS is an AR work that immerses the user into ritualistic interactions with the Uncanny, and its virtual spectres. Through an orb’s eerie guidance, the user must follow its circular movements to trigger portals. Once passed through, the user becomes engaged with different AR environments and encounter the disjointed, and glitched-beings that occupy them. The work, ceremonial in the user’s performance the beginning and end seem intertwined, snake-like in which mouth and tale are forever joined, forever haunted.
OUROBOROS is a reminder that in our further emergence as post-humans, we are also entering into a new digital realm of the occult. In which spectres of yesterday’s séances have passed through and entered our media, turning our technology into a phantasmatic object that contains our Uncanny digital-selfs. Questioning that our agency in virtuality, are instead commitments to the liquidity of media and acts of cannibalistic consumption of our haunted self.