Bad Trip
Navigate the creator's memories, 2012
Alan Kwan (HK)
Bad Trip is a virtual reality installation that enables people to navigate the creator's mind using a game controller. Since November 2011, every moment of my life has been documented by a video camera mounted on my glasses, producing an expanding database of digitised visual memories. Using custom virtual reality software, I created a virtual mindscape that people can navigate and experience my memories and dreams. The virtual world is perpetually evolving as I load fresh virtual memories every night.
About Alan
Born in 1990, I am an artist who works at the intersection of cinema and new media. My recent projects, which blend film, video game and emerging technologies such as lifelogging devices and brainwave sensors, have been shown at exhibitions around the world, including the Ars Electronica Festival in Austria, ZKM Centre for Art and Media in Germany, and MOCA Shanghai. In 2014, I received the Hong Kong Arts Development Council Award for Young Artist in Media Art, and the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship to pursue his graduate studies at Massachusetts Institue of Technology (MIT).
Alan Kwan would like to thank IP Yuk-Yiu and Tamas Waliczky for their support with this project.