TesserIce

4D VR Mediascape

Clea T. Waite, Todd Furmanski, Caleb Foss, Jared Christopher Kelley, Max Orozco, Angelika von Chamier

The VR installation of Tesserice in the Summer School is made possible thanks to the support of the VARLAB 

As part of the Summer School program the DAMSLab will host the VR installation TesserIce (2024) by American artist Clea T. Waite. TesserIce is a VR artwork where the participant navigates inside a 4-dimensional tesseract of living ice in which time is a material axis – a spatial lens outside our three dimensions. From the tesseract’s center, they experience space, time, sound, and ice in the unfamiliar geometry of the fourth dimension. Each room within this hyper-architecture presents a different phase and scale of glacial ice, inviting us to reconsider our radical connection to remote ecosystems via time, geology, and Earth. 

Students are invited not only to experience the work, but also to contribute to Clea T. Waite's artistic process by filling out a questionnaire that will allow the artist to gather feedback on the experience.  

[link to the questionnaire]