Fighting the Octopus

online chat room, 2020

The main purpose of this work is to examine the daily stress of self-isolation. Visitors are invited to talk to avatars in a strange-looking virtual underwater space: some of them are people, while others are computer-generated entities (their avatars look like octopi, hence the name of the artwork). At first, visitors don’t know the difference, but slowly realise that they need to join forces with other humans and fight the octopi.

The key idea of Fighting the Octopus is to show people that even in the virtual space, human-to-human connection can be established. You can #stayhome and still stay human.