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.
Tsu-Wei LU is an interdisciplinary artist exploring the paradoxical relationship between humans and technology through VR, bio-sensing, and immersive systems. With a background in contemporary art installation and digital media, her work reflects on cognition and dependency in a world shaped by technological necessity. She has exhibited internationally, including at Laval Virtual and Archives Nationales de France. More at lutsuwei.com.
