A Sensory Experience

Intricate Memories is an immersive and interactive virtual reality installation that explores how bodily sensations, gaze, and multimodal feedback affect the participant's sense of presence through a responsive avatar. The system integrates real-time body tracking, eye tracking, and generative AI to enable a dynamic entanglement between the participant and their avatar, whose appearance evolves based on emotional and sensory stimuli. By combining multiple input modalities and sensory outputs, this VR space supports non-linear interactions guided by gaze, allowing the avatar's body to act as a medium of somatic memory. The project examines how three types of memory : somatic, mental, and collective artificial, reshape presence and body representation in immersive environments. It also critically examines how media representations, especially those shaped by disinformation, can alter our affects.