“Metamorphotica” is a multi-linear, interactive XR art installation that transports its participants with a head-mounted display, haptic gloves, and a brainwave headset into a dreamlike intermediate world. The starting point is Ovid’s Metamorphoses, which tell of transformation, longing, and the dissolution of body and identity. Drifting in a cocoon, a transcranial fluid alters the genetic code and transforms the participants into chimeras, hybrid beings of foreign creatures and their former selves. With new sensory abilities such as echolocation, electroreception, telekinesis, tentacle eyes, or vibration perception, they must find their way through an unknown environment to survive. They dive, dig, fly, or crawl as they search for a new self. Hidden in this world are amber stones that store the stories of previous chimeras, thus creating a connection between generations of transformation. “Metamorphotica” becomes a journey through external and internal transformation that is both fascinating and vulnerable.
Concept: Tobias Bieseke
Programming: Jan Schulten
Avatar Artwork: Azziza El-Yabadri
Environment Artwork: Timo Sodenkamp.
In collaboration with storyLab kiU at FH Dortmund.
There is one slot per person per hour.