a chinese woman with short hair wearing a virtual reality headset looking at her hands through the sensors
Dan Xu
Flatlanders (2017)

Flatlanders is a visual illusion installation that challenges our perception of reality in relation to the frame of reference. As our perception is conditioned by the straight geometry of the built environment, being inside the slightly tilted wooden box, our brain automatically corrects the frame of the wooden box and perceives the objects placed in strictly horizontal and vertical positions as tilted.

front view of a small room size wooden box slightly tilted at the back side view of a small room size wooden box slightly tilted at the back

The inside view:

Flatlanders was created with Robin Bergman and George Bouzias and was exhibited at Hubspot, Leiden, NL, Feb 3-9, 2017 as part of Media Technology (now Creative Intelligence & Technology) Semester exhibition Return.

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