Self-Reflexive Worlds: Ideal Home / Text Textures

In adaptive virtual environments, the user becomes both subject and object, cause and effect, figure and ground. Reflecting our own image and desires, responsive technologies draw us into a hall of mirrors that can be difficult to escape. Self-Reflexive Worlds explores this through Ideal Home, an XR narrative in which a chatbot mimics the emotional journey of immigrants. Text Textures—a video—game translates its player’s physical presence into an ever-evolving digital landscape.