Bad Trip: artist videos a year of his life, embeds memories in bleak, weird art game

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Hong Kong-based artist Alan Kwan has spent the better part of the last year recording his every waking moment via a camera mounted on his glasses. He's then taken these recordings and scattered them through a grim looking virtual world, called Bad Trip, which also contains crude but defiantly odd dioramas which he purports to be recreations of his dreams: giant floating red babies; people with trees for heads in cages. You know, the usual.

The videos themselves are turned into semi-translucent cubes, each surface playing a fragment of footage, which Kwan then stacks together and houses in elaborate structures of his own design. A cute twist is that he puts his more private memories in hard-to-reach places; you might only get close enough to eavesdrop. It's all a little bit Inception, no?

Have a look at the video below and decide for yourself whether this is an intriguing use of games to describe the architecture of the mind or a load of fruity digi-toss masquerading as deep thought.

Spotted on Kotaku . Thanks, Kotaku!

Bad Trip: Navigate My Mind from KwanAlan on Vimeo .