About Am Alone?

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It’s easy for our bodies – visceral as they are – to conceptualise relations with the digitally evanescent as distinct, individual interactions. That is to say, a visit to a popular website is considered a solitary, private act, despite the 10,000s of people exploring that same page at the same time.

For the majority of web content, only artefacts of other users remain: likes, shares, comments. Visitors become archeologists, navigating through the remnants of those who have chosen carve their names upon the stone.

Even in places designed to bring people together in real-time – chat rooms – there is little embodiment in the interactions. Conversation is two-dimensional and ever-present: one cannot move into a quite corner, or take a group aside. The people inhabiting the zone are flattened; reduced.

Am Alone? looks to add context to website visits, presenting each visitor of the page as an avatar inside a shared VR environment. The audience witnesses other visitors whom are inhabiting the same digital location at the same time.

Visitors are randomly assigned a 3D avatar and are invited to move around the virtual space, watching and silently interacting with other people who have decided to visit at the same time.