The viewer’s attention triggers both the passage of time, through accelerated day-night cycles in a real-time virtual environment, and the autonomous trading of digital currency. This installation reveals how attention becomes a currency and the illusion of agency in immersive technologies and reflects on the construction of personal ‚value‘ in an era obsessed with productivity. The viewer’s attention becomes both the condition for art to exist and the mechanism by which value is generated.
The work Best version of self will be shown as part of IC @ Ars Electronica 2025, exhibited at PostCity, Bahnhofplatz 12.