Hacked Fractal

Game (prototype), 2021.

When entering this game experience, exploring its space and performing manipulations in it, the user is unaware of his or her synchronous interaction with other objects in a different location, the risks to his reputation, the nature of the acquired procedural experience. regarding his reputation, about the nature of the procedural experience being acquired. For example, when assembling a puzzle of abstract form in some neutral location. the player does not know that he also acts in a parallel location, where the skeleton of the of the space and the arrangement of objects is the same, but the visual and the objects themselves are different. And in that space, the same puzzle is a simulation for assembling an AK-47. So the player and his body physically adopts that experience, acquiring a skill that someone else has introduced unconsciously. In this regard, we can speculate about the risks and potentials of unfolding such stories in VR games and experiences, as well as the the potential for an additional headset with feedback signals, in the case of which body programming seems to be maximally accessible. The audio track used in the game is based on the sublime music of Shoko Asahara — founder of a Japanese totalitarian terrorist sect.