APORIA
Live simulation + VR expirience
via screen/projection and VR glases-oculus rift

APORIA is a virtual world and negotiates the sociological processes of closed and open societies. Above all, „Crowds and Power“, a work of Elias Canetti has become a significant influence on the work. The behavioral dynamics analyzed in the book are transfered to 30-60 individuals with their very own artificial intelligence (AI). They inhabit the world of APORIA in the form of human avatars. Through complex algorithms, these AI‘s are able to explore their environment and decide on individual actions. A part of them is acting more close-minded and tends to build walls or to act according
to a strong order principle. The other part tends to be open and moves more unlimited. All ‚subjects‘ meanwhile follow daily human routines until the moment when a ‚disturbance‘ in the form of a stranger appears - on which the inhabitants of the virtual.