Mono No Aware

Interactive video-game installation | In collaboration with Jonas Pequeno

Mono no aware invites visitors to explore an endlessly generated virtual landscape using a custom 3D-printed joystick. The environment combines objects appropriated from military video games with machine-learning-generated imagery and textures, producing an unfamiliar landscape assembled from recognisable digital fragments.

Developed through research into representations of “nature” in online sound and image archives, the work considers how language, classification and technological mediation shape perceptions of the world. Rather than offering objectives, competition or a winning condition, it encourages wandering and observation. The installation was presented at Stallmann Gallery, Berlin, from 10 June to 10 August 2022.