MIRRORED DWELLERS 

an artistic exploration into embodying virtual identities and its impact on user experience  by Anneleen Swillen (contemporary jewellery), Guus Vandeweerd (graphic design, XR-design), Ine Vanoeveren (XR-performance), Senneke Van de Wygaert (contemporary jewellery), and Esther Verstreken (graphic design). 

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^{image design by Guus Vandeweerd} 

Mirrored Dwellers is a performative project that aims to explore virtual identity within the context of Extended Reality (XR). For this project, we experiment with digital adornment, embodiment, personification, user experience and intra-active (Barad) phygital impressions. A selection of Ornamutations has been translated by Guus Vandeweerd into different avatars and a virtual world. During the performance, Ine Vanoeveren embodies an avatars and plays the flute in VR, all the while looking at her own reflection in this virtual world. Through Ine's viewpoint, an experimental poem co-authored with ChatGPT, and scientific allusions, the audience engages. Their presence and diverse perspectives are pivotal in questioning virtual identity, as well as active 'vs' passive spectatorship in XR. Wearing the avatar(s),  entails embracing notions of otherness, plurality, and interconnectedness, while touching upon intricate entanglements of more-than-human actors, technologies, practices and environments. 

Mirrored Dwellers is an ongoing project since 2023. So far, it has been performed at RITCS, Brussels (23/03/2023) and De Singel, Antwerp (19/04/2023). We plan on further developing this project in 2024. 

 ^{Mirrored Dwellers performance at RITCS, Brussels (2023)}

 An experimental text written in collab with ChatGPT is part of the performance.