VR Art Installation

The work is based on Joseph Beuys’ action I Like America & America Likes Me. The space of the Rene Block Gallery has been digitally reconstructed here in the form as it was before, during the Beuys’ action in May 1974. Inside there is a virtual coyote.  All consecutive coyote animations (programmed behaviors) are selected randomly by an algorithm. We are unable to predict the sequence of events. No arrangement will repeat itself.

Entering the virtual space has to cause an intensified individual experience. All the more aggravated, because it presents the person of the recipient-participant alone with a specific unpredictable situation, something completely new, previously never experienced. Due to its unpredictability, this situation becomes all the more dangerous because it is unknown.

The chronology of Coyote’s behavior cannot be predicted. There is no control over the process. The participant has an indirect control. The algorithm decides. By putting on the headset, the participant becomes the only active recipient of the action.

App for VR goggles.