ARTIST RESIDENCY AWARD

HUANG WEI-HSUAN

Virtual Virtual Award for Extended Reality Artist

Plexus Projects is pleased to award Huang Wei-Hsuan the 2023 Virtual Virtual Award for Extended Reality Artists. This remote residency award supports artists creating extended reality artworks with technologies including but not limited to VR, AR, and XR media. The selected artist receives funding to support their studio practice and research during a one-month remote residency. Virtual Virtual is supported by a grant from the Unnamed Fund.

Huang Wei-Hsuan (Taipei, Taiwan) creates works that provoke conversation between audiovisual and projection, aiming to trigger the imagination of audiences. During his remote residency he will develop Shifting Borders, an interactive two-person virtual reality experience. This project focuses on the creation of a digital twin for the spatial perception with individuals respectively sensing with HMDs. Participants are both audience and performance. They observe a virtual world in different corners and encounter physically together in a parallel universe. The question of “Where do I exist?” is blurred by the technology of a “digital twin” that exists in the cloud. Shifting Borders explores the dialogue between sensing and being sensed.