Morning on Earth

Interactive World presented at ISEA2024 Everwhen Creative Program
Meanjin/Brisbane

This Styly-hosted immersive world layers time through repeating cultural motifs which are presented as 360 video, skybox environment, and six co-existing chambers within a mountain.
Enter and select gold wall icons to change rooms.

Styly In-app Images

  • Exterior View 1

  • Allegorical 3D scene

    Inner Room 1 - Frozen in time workshop, where the world’s recurring motifs appear as raw material parts. Mini diorama of entire world in center.

  • Inner Room 2 - Spiraling column of graphic symbols

  • Inner Room 3 - Sequence of gold spheres perpetually emerge and rise up in a room where animated hieroglyphic-like ball marchers line the walls.

  • Inner Room 4 - Massive angel in room of sparkle walls, fire ceiling, and clear view to spiraling world below.

  • Inner Room 5 - Creature suspended in DNA column

  • Inner Room 6 - Crystalline sculptures in an organic shell

  • Inside 360 Video Sphere

Statement

"Morning on Earth" presents an immersive realm of recurring motifs, where mountainous formations enshrine mysterious icons from an unknown time. Are these ceremonial monuments, omens, or something else? Do these artifacts reflect a past cataclysmic event, or do they foretell future potentialities? A 360 video with haunting music adds a visceral layer, with its miniature diorama of drifting debris and ghostly figures in the mist. We turn to an inner chamber in the mountain, where six rooms co-exist in space, each activated by point-and-click emblems near the entrance. This allegorical panorama reveals a palimpsest of icons, prompting viewers to uncover meanings, to envision narratives. The emotional ambience wavers on the brink between hope and despair, possibly encompassing both.