Nueva Realidad
In this work you can see a landscape that is made up of five pyramids, which are being illuminated by a large sphere that represents the sun. If the click is held down, an image appears of what is being represented by the 3d figures.
New reality shows us a digital version of what we longed for before, for example, “How nice a vacation in the desert would be, it would be very relaxing.” It takes us in a second without having to move, and it is also accompanied by sound effects that match the theme of the work. What would be the point of traveling thousands of kilometers if we can observe it from the comfort of our homes? Technology is our new reality, within the reach of a click we save a lot of money and time and obtain a perhaps better experience.
The use of headphones is recommended for a better experience.
Technical, aesthetic and conceptual development
The work “New reality” seeks similarity and comparison to a real landscape, so that the first thing that comes to mind when you see the work is “It is a desert with pyramids and a great sun that illuminates it.” At the same time, it also seeks a critique of the social environment in which we are currently located.
The title of the work is due to the fact that technology is eating us little by little, so much so that we look at the television, computers, cell phones or tablets more than our surroundings. The work transports us not only to a virtual world, but to a landscape. Along with audio that produces relaxation, but all this is artificial, and, even so, it is currently what we lean towards.
As time progresses, technology ensures that what we see on our screens is no longer just an image, but rather that we enter the cyber world, wherever we are. We are no longer limited to conventional places, but we carry the power to momentarily transport ourselves from one place to the other in our pockets, that is, with cell phones.
Although technology gives us many possibilities, it is taking away many experiences that we previously had more of.
My work seeks to be futuristic, so that the viewer feels that they are inside the work, that they not only see some cones and a sphere, but that they feel that they are in that place, that is why the audio chosen was one with immersive effects and that is of the same environment. The spectator in this work plays a very important role, since he himself gives meaning to the work.
If the participant did not see the work it would make no sense to say “we humans waste time watching a screen when it has beautiful things to see on the outside” but since they are viewing a digital work through a digital device, the work is being completed with the audience. For this reason, we live simultaneously in a real world and in a virtual one, the digital is an extension of the human body, but it is increasingly replacing it more and more.
We change the ‘real’ world experience of going to visit a family member on their birthday to a ‘virtual’ world experience, sending them a WhatsApp saying “Happy birthday.”
We no longer know people by spending time with them or a place by visiting it, with just a search on Google or social networks we can acquire all the knowledge we want. Every day we have more social networks and we spend more time in front of screens. Children learn vocabulary from YouTube videos and not from educational books.
We no longer appreciate a leaf drawn and painted in front of our eyes so much, nor the art and feelings that they reflect, but rather we prefer to look at what’s new on the networks.
The description of the work leaves things to think about: Is it really okay to let ourselves be consumed by the digital and give up the memories we could acquire in the outside world?
Literature
MARCHÁN FIZ, Simón. (1994). Ambientes y espacios lúdicos
TAYLOR, Diana. (2012). Los nuevos usos de la performance.