Episode 02:
VR, Mozilla Hubs / virtual environment

Episode 02 - wandering the archive, which is hosted on the social VR platform Mozilla Hubs, travels into an environment without time-space relation. We find ourselves in the head of the drone, travelling through the archive of its processed data, which consists of fragments of the previous world. These remaining excerpts (3D scans of opencast mining in NRW, of abandonned villages (Lützerath / Manheim which are already gone) stand as a proxy for that forgotten history that has been lost in brutal landscape inscriptions caused by exploitation of earthly resources. Within 4 scenes reminiscent of a musical, we wander through 3D models and listen to the song of the drone, texts that also repeatedly appear in the virtual world itself and describe its surroundings and happenings.

The third and final episode, mines of the glacier, exists as a walk-through VR installation as well as a Mozilla Hubs experience. In three scenes, the potentials of symbiotic interspecies relationships are explored and, at the same time, a new beginning is imagined as a consequence of the brutality of human impact on nature. Visitors travel as avatars, a hybrid virtual body representing a lichen, ice and techno being, into a 3D scan of a melting glacier cave, a symbol of climate change, but also a place of archives and history uncovering, into the world of lichens, a super plant that has super powers due to its symbiotic existence, consisting of algae and fungus. In the third scene, we travel to the technosphere, where the physical body gradually dissolves, everything is digitally connected and you can take on any form.