Thank you to visual artist and technologist Debbie Ding for inviting Joses Ho and myself to conduct our discussion “From Cybertext to the Metaverse” at the Goethe Institute last 30 November. It was the first talk I ever gave that was done almost entirely in virtual reality . We visited 5 worlds that Debbie had created: Flowers, the Udon Bird Sanctuary, Cyberlove Suites, The Commuter and Lost Horizons. The latter was a vast library hidden at the fictional crash site of the (still missing).MH370 –it reminded me of my own Infinite Library. Great discussion on virtual worlds as art, ergodic literature, Reductionism, and world-building for open world games. [n.b. I should have asked how to change my avatar. It was a bit hard to maintain my dignity as an anthropomorphic yokai goldfish.]
More info here on Debbie Ding’s open studio exhibit: “The Psychogeographer’s Guide to Virtual Worlds”.
The Infinite Library and Other Stories 