UNCAGED is a series of six telesymbiotic installations exploring interrelationships and transitions between screen-based digital environments and their physical surroundings.

The project is motivated by the idea to ‘uncage' computer based realities from the confines of their digital existence and to bring the remote computer world closer to our human experience. In particular, UNCAGED is opposed to the notion of immersive Virtual Reality where the physical world is more or less excluded from the participants, but instead attempts to situate the virtual domain within the physical world.
At the same time, UNCAGED seems to highlight the distance between the two domains. The underlying absurdity of the exhibits - or to be more precise, the absurdity of the apparent fusion between their physical and digital components - hints at the fallacy of the initial motivation behind UNCAGED and, in a wider context, questions the idea to seek in virtual worlds a place for meaningful human exchange and experiences.

UNCAGED incorporates different electromechanical devices and automated sculptures which interact, visually and acoustically, with computer generated animations and video images. Most of the exhibits are reminiscent of familiar games or feature modified toys, and participants can playfully engage with the installations via touch screens and tangible custom-made interfaces.

To view additional photos and videos of the individual exhibits, please also follow the link "Exhibition" below.

Blow Life | Bubblelabub | Glitchy & Scratchy | Pong (...) |
...Jingle Bells... | Square Pusher | Exhibition | Home