Mining

Mining / Tsu-Wei Lu - Photo: Tsu-Wei Lu

Mining

Tsu-Wei Lu (TW)

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, creating the illusion of agency in immersive technologies. It prompts reflection 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.