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Garden of all spheres is a VR experience which exhibits the live simulation of a pseudo-ecosystem. The garden is built in the video game environment, which can exhibit the most advanced technology in the production and presentation of real-time CGI and simulation. The library of the virtual scenery is parallel with the modern natural history museum - the eye-catching collection of nature - the inventories which are ever-expanding and impossible to complete. Skysphere is a primary, simple prop for creating an illusion of horizon. In the nature of Virtual Reality, the player?s eye is located in the centre of the sphere. It becomes her private sky which is impossible to feel the scale of it - as much like as the sky in the physical world. The camera moves beyond the stage, from inner shell to outer shell and reveals the boundary of human-centred viewpoint. This spherical garden mediated through VR glasses, which embodies the desire for a seamlessly expanded vision. All the animals, humanoids, trees, stones, lights, skies are reflected on the surface of gazing ball and exhibited in the spherical vitrine, and the exhibition becomes meta-ecosphere.

Yoonjoo Lee is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Berlin. Her artistic practice generally focuses on the relationship between voyeuristic/Intellectual curiosity and technology of representation. She uses various digital technologies such as 3d animation and video game engines for a platform of the moving image experiments and explores the apparatus-mediated vision. She is currently studying experimental film and generative art in the Berlin University of Arts.