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eXistenZ | 2022 | Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality | interactive digital space | Unity, C#, Blender | this was my final work for my Master in Fine Arts studies related to my Master Thesis “Entangled Viewer”
Algaeia | 2025 | Augmented Reality with Spatial audio | Algaeia originally started as a web based Virtual Reality Experience during the DODO Hackathon in 2022. For the Urban Waters exhibition in Strandbad Tiefenbrunnen in Zurich, we (Indiara Di Benedetto, Queby Satriani and Sara Rutz) converted Algaeia into a site specific Augmented Reality Experience. An orange buoy with a QR code is placed on a bench in the Strandbad and serves as a portal to enter the Augmented Reality experience. More infos about the Urban Waters exhibition here.
Failtopia | 2023 | Virtual Reality | Unity, Blender | team: Lucy Yao, Nicolette Damianou, Emil Rofors, Kabeer Andrabi and Sara Rutz | this project was created during the MIT Reality Hack in January 2023 and won the grand prize 
2022: wrote an essay called AN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY OF COLLECTIVE VIRTUAL SPACES IN GAMES for the publication meta.space, published by Distanz Verlag:
https://www.distanz.de/metaspace-visions-of-space-from-the-middle-ages-to-the-digital-age
2022 | Unity, Blender | During the VR days Hackathon we created a VR game, using haptic gloves of the sponsors, which helps users to learn sign language. I created 3D models in Blender. | team Octopi: Wessel Roelofse, Merlijn de Heus, Jack Jagt, Gillienne Ys, Jizelle Ys, Tristan van den Heuvel, and Sara Rutz. trailer:
2023 | at the Seashore | seashell with QR code leading to a virtual | part of the group exhibition “The Seashore of Endless Worlds” at Le Commun Geneva | https://forthewin.ch/productions/tsoew
AFTERLIFE | text adventure Game | 2021
The Game AFTERLIFE is a text based choice making Game about the virtual afterlife in the cloud of Afterlife company. The Game lets the player reflect on questions of existence in our digitized world, where our data traces keep on existing on hard drives and social media profiles even after we die in the physical world. What happens to your digital twin, that you carefully craft on social media profiles once you are gone and can’t update it anymore?
play here: https://arcweave.com/app#/project/qo6GDzD0zQ/play
documentation:
2023 | documentation Places Hackathon in Residence
2022 | Unity, Blender | During the VR days Hackathon we created a VR game, using haptic gloves of the sponsors, which helps users to learn sign language. I created 3D models in Blender. | team Octopi: Wessel Roelofse, Merlijn de Heus, Jack Jagt, Gillienne Ys, Jizelle Ys, Tristan van den Heuvel, and Sara Rutz. trailer:
2023 | at the Seashore | seashell with QR code leading to a virtual | part of the group exhibition “The Seashore of Endless Worlds” at Le Commun Geneva | https://forthewin.ch/productions/tsoew
AFTERLIFE | text adventure Game | 2021
The Game AFTERLIFE is a text based choice making Game about the virtual afterlife in the cloud of Afterlife company. The Game lets the player reflect on questions of existence in our digitized world, where our data traces keep on existing on hard drives and social media profiles even after we die in the physical world. What happens to your digital twin, that you carefully craft on social media profiles once you are gone and can’t update it anymore?
play here: https://arcweave.com/app#/project/qo6GDzD0zQ/play
documentation:
2023 | documentation Places Hackathon in Residence
2022 | Unity, Blender | During the VR days Hackathon we created a VR game, using haptic gloves of the sponsors, which helps users to learn sign language. I created 3D models in Blender. | team Octopi: Wessel Roelofse, Merlijn de Heus, Jack Jagt, Gillienne Ys, Jizelle Ys, Tristan van den Heuvel, and Sara Rutz. trailer:
2023 | at the Seashore | seashell with QR code leading to a virtual | part of the group exhibition “The Seashore of Endless Worlds” at Le Commun Geneva | https://forthewin.ch/productions/tsoew
AFTERLIFE | text adventure Game | 2021
The Game AFTERLIFE is a text based choice making Game about the virtual afterlife in the cloud of Afterlife company. The Game lets the player reflect on questions of existence in our digitized world, where our data traces keep on existing on hard drives and social media profiles even after we die in the physical world. What happens to your digital twin, that you carefully craft on social media profiles once you are gone and can’t update it anymore?
play here: https://arcweave.com/app#/project/qo6GDzD0zQ/play
documentation: