This work is an installation that creates a non-existent world inside an anechoic chamber using a Head-Mounted Display (HMD) and a 9.1-channel surround sound system. Viewers seamlessly transition from real space to experience a surreal alternate space in the virtual world.

The title of this work is taken from the book “The View from Nowhere,” published in 1986 by the philosopher Thomas Nagel. It attempts to understand how participants can attain a perspective that transcends the subjectivity and objectivity of actions through VR and the generated acoustic environment. This work serves as a device to bring participants closer to a viewpoint that is neither first-person nor third-person. It does this by causing discrepancies in both the relationship between perception and motion that participants have cultivated throughout their lives, and the relationship between memories born from past experiences (or predictions of the future) and the “present.”

Most of the sounds and their movements heard during the experience are generated in real-time. For instance, the landscape that the participant is looking at might be converted into sound, or the flight of an invisible void in the VR space (simulating complex movements of numerous swarms) may produce wave-like sounds. This creates a living virtual environment that varies with each experience.