CHAMBER 404

A web-based virtual reality (VR) performance experience for Vroom Theatre

Shown at Camden People’s Theatre Sprint Digital Festival 2021, 3rd-10th June 2021

Preview here: https://fifteen2020.bartlettarchucl.com/dfpi/chamber-404

As digital and physical realities become increasingly entangled, social media has become essential for building interpersonal connections and creating one’s sense of identity. Combining voice acting with a radical visual explosion of 360-degree video, Chamber 404 explores the disorientation and confusion in the process of self-identity construction in the online realm – with its ongoing pressure to perform, to face social obligations, the dissolving of work and life, as well as the exposure to sexuality. Through an interactive web portal, audiences are taken on a journey through an obscure cyberworld of changing online identities, in which their participation fosters empathy with the protagonist, an East Asian Generation Z female, which prompts them to critically interrogate the current landscape of social media and its effects.