Simulations is a series of photographs and an animated short of ordinary spaces reimagined to suggest that our world is merely a simulation. Whether it is the park we pass by every day or the iconic beaches of LA, I wanted to show the viewer what this world might look like if we peeled back the topmost layer of reality to reveal the artificial material on the other side. With the advent of virtual reality and advanced A.I., it seems the world is racing towards the common goal of making the artificial as lifelike as possible. This project was an experiment in the opposite direction: taking reality and manufacturing it to resemble artificiality.
Throughout the course of this assignment, I began actively looking for oddly surreal scenes which I could manipulate to add to my collection of simulated simulations. Without thinking, I found myself noticing unnaturally uniform buildings, or shadows that seemed the wrong opacity. I began noticing these “glitches in the matrix” that I never saw before. My hope for the viewer of these works is that they too will look at their reality with new and scrutinizing eyes, to notice the glitches in their own matrix, and to continue to search for the edges and gaps of this simulation we live in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOy_ZpwLnZo
