THE 0L1MP1A PROGRAM

THE 0L1MP1A PROGRAM is a VR work that positions the user in the trapped gaze and body of a digital NPC (non-playable-character). As a computerized humanoid with no agency, whose mundane and absurdist actions are endlessly repeated, the user of this program is bound to follow such prosaic and un-emancipated behaviours. Placed as the trapped ‘consciousness’ of the NPC, the users shall inevitably feel disembodied by the digital avatar’s plain and meaningless reality. New programs in our digital world (both social and game) aim to push us into an Ubermensch-like character, where we must leave our monotonous, uninteresting and banal selves behind the said screen. The body stays stuck to the machine and the mind is able to wonder and occupy new suits of digital representations. THE 0L1MP1A PROGRAM plays the opposite game, a game in which the reality presented is one we are trying to continually escape.