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fantasy_lane (2024/2025) FantasyLane explores the complex interplay between digital desires and the intangible aspirations of homeownership within a financialized housing market, where the dream of owning a home becomes increasingly elusive. The project culminates in a commentary on the blending of pleasure, anxiety, and the shifting concept of home amidst societal constructs, reflecting the broader housing crisis many face today. FantasyLane is a work-in-progress, presented in a game engine. It features three different spaces narrated by an ASMR voice, simulating the experience of buying your first home. The 3D spaces are derived from the PropertySex channel on Pornhub.com and processed through a neural network (Neural Radiance Field) to recreate the environments in 3D. These environments are integrated into a game engine, allowing for navigation through the virtual spaces. The narration, inspired by ASMR YouTube videos that discuss contracts and floorplans, plays into the fantasy of homeownership. Within these virtual spaces, viewers can find comments left by the original viewers of the PropertySex videos, not about the sexual activity, but about the actual spaces where these activities take place. FantasyLane is made in collaboration Antonia Hernández

Lotte Louise de Jong is a new media artist with a background in filmmaking. Her work spans film, installation and online spaces, exploring how digital culture and the economy shape identity, intimacy and desire. She is interested in how these experiences are mediated, staged and commodified through screens, and how underlying social, cultural and economic structures influence our daily lives. Growing up in an environment of homemade computers and early internet culture, she developed a familiarity with digital spaces that continues to inform her practice. Drawing on online culture, early net art and the hidden infrastructures of digital networks, she uses humor, empathy and nuance to create spaces where curiosity replaces moral judgment. By developing her own tools and working across both digital and physical spaces, she makes visible the often concealed mechanisms of mediated life, inviting audiences to reflect on their own participation without moralism or dogma. She holds a Master’s degree from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, teaches at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy at DogTime, and in 2025 received the Mondriaan Fund artist basic grant. Her projects have also been supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL. In 2026 she will begin a two-year residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.