Infinity Room: New Edition

The immersive installation »Infinity Room«, which surrounds the viewers on all sides, cancels out the boundaries of the space that are normally recognizable, and creates the illusion of endlessness. The work is part of Refik Anadol’s »Temporary Immersive Environment Experiments«, which focuses on exploring immersion as a mind and perception-altering effect in the context of audiovisual installations. The term “immersion,” which originally comes from physics and means submerging an object in a liquid, in the context of digital media describes the experience of being completely immersed in an artificial reality.

Using a computer-generated, four-channel projection, the conventionally two-dimensional projection surfaces combine to form a three-dimensional space that changes continuously. The mirrored surfaces on the floor and ceiling, in which the projected structures are multiplied several times, cancel out common categories such as top and bottom. The boundaries of physical space blur and are extended into infinity. Through light forms, reality and fiction, physical and virtual space merge. With this installation Anadol enables the viewers to experience physically infinite spaces. The virtual, immersive space demonstrates the relativity of one’s own perception.