Enacted Scene: Virtual World Built Upon Experimental Cognitive Intervention

Abstract

Our mind constantly interacts with our environments. We cognize the world and transform it on the basis of multifarious experiences we continue to have. Enacted Scene intervenes in this cognitive process of building memories and mediates the disparity between disinterested digital images and unstable yet rich, affective memories of the same experience. In this project, the artist carefully opens and explores the underlying interaction between a mind and a world by digitally recreating the experienced world – the city of Spokane. The artist's daily exploration of the city was influenced by their actions in the process – observation, photographing, and 3D modeling, and in this way, they intervened in underlying cognitive activities. To represent this process that a nonconscious mind emerges as a recognizable cognition, it is first presented as a scattered image and invites the audience to approach closely and engage in enacting the image of their memories.