Data Driven Furniture | VR Online Store - [BETA] with Lucas Kuzma
Quasi Things are data-driven furniture objects giving sculptural form to financial markets. Presented as on-demand products in a virtual showroom, each object juxtaposes historic data points in a time series based on the Flash Crash of 2010, a trillion-dollar US stock market crash on May 6, 2010 that lasted for approximately 36 minutes. Each object epitomizes a particular stage in this history, bringing a literal figure-ground relation to abstract notions of financial markets. Destined for the lounges and lobbies of board rooms and financial services, and available with appropriate assembly instructions, Quasi Things serve as a support platform to provide poise for volatile futures to come. Quasi things ushers symbolic form in a space lacking physical trace by design. Viewers can navigate the showroom and seating arrangements with their virtual gaze.
*Quasi Things was inspired by Bruno Latour’s quasi-objects notion of nature-culture dichotomies.
Exhibited at Interspace – artistic and design perspectives on virtual reality, Ringel Gallery, Purdue University, IN, curated by Shannon McMullen and Fabian Winkler
