As Paranoia Comes to a Poem

Artist
Rhett Tsai

Creation media and date
VR hypertext, 2018

Description
As Paranoia Comes to a Poem is a hypertext work created with virtual reality (VR) as the medium.
Using VR to do hypertext works is the exploration and innovation for hypertext nowadays.
The author proceeded from the relationship between space and text and made hypertext reading experiments in VR. It explores consciousness of paranoia in the post-modern, the anxiety and evolution of the digital community in the 21st century, the symbiosis between people and cyberspace, and the fragmentation and interaction of current information. In this work, the user / reader walks in the text matrix with the VR controller, reads with the VR headset, interacts with the text, and triggers text content replacement. Taking the spatial textual interaction as the base point, the author allows the reader to obtain the author’s power in this reading / writing space, and let reader reconstruct and write the hypertext narrative in his walking.
The “Paranoia” here is the “Paranoia” in the sense of Thomas Pynchon. It is a form of acceptance and ideology of post-modern people in the face of information, hyperlinks, and cyberspace. This symptoms-like name, “Paranoia”, is nothing but a metaphor. When one becomes a paranoiac, he begins to actively seek connections, maintains doubts about information and text, and pays more attention to his power and participation in this writing space.
The text describes the fragmented mind of ​​a 21st century paranoiac and the narrative statement of the paranoiac from a third person perspective. Each text has the intertextuality. The viewer reads the text by walking through space by triggering the hyperlink in VR space.
Reading methods: (1) Press the direction disk of the VR controller to move; (2) Look at the text via VR headset and use the VR controller trigger to trigger the hyperlink to jump from one text to another text.

妄想是一首不问来去的诗

艺术家
蔡宇潇

创作媒介及时间
虚拟现实超文本，2018年

作品介绍
《妄想是一首不问来去的诗》是一件以虚拟现实（VR）为媒介创作的超文本作品。
作者从空间、文本的关系出发，在VR中进行超文本阅读实验。它探讨后现代的妄想意识、廿一世纪数码群体的忧虑与演化、人与赛博空间的共生、当下信息的破碎与互涉。在该作品中，用户/ 阅读者用VR手柄行走于文本矩阵内，用VR头盔观看、与文本产生交互，触发文本内容更替。作者以空间的文本互涉为基点，让读者在空间中获得作者的权力，在行走中重构、书写超文本叙事。
这里的「妄想症」是托马斯・品钦意义上的「妄想症」，它是后现代人面对信息、超链接、赛博空间所表现出的一种接受方式和意识形态，称其为「症结」不过是一种比喻。当人成为妄想者，他便开始主动寻找连接、保持对信息、文本的质疑，更加关注自己在文本中的权力和参与度。
文本以第三人称的视角描述一位廿一世纪妄想症患者的破碎想法，以及对他的论断叙述。每个文本皆有互涉，观者通过行走来阅读文本，通过触发文本跳转来在空间中漫游。
阅读方法：（1）按压VR手柄的方向圆盘进行行走；（2）用VR头盔注视文本并同时扣动VR手柄Trigger按键以触发文本跳转。