A brief introductory video to the virtual reality project Temporal World by artist Chloé Lee, which reveals her process of creating a personal virtual world that evokes the ephemerality of memory.

“Temporal World” is a VR experience in which artist Chloé Lee reflects on making meaning in places with varying levels of connection to her; from the personal to the familial to the foreign. While wearing a custom haptic jacket, we enter a virtual world composed of 3D sights and sounds of Berlin, and beyond, guiding us to slow down in our increasingly accelerated time. As an Asian-American artist, she explores themes of migration through discovery, documentation and, in time, rooting herself in a new place.

This experience emphasizes the ephemerality of memory and learning to sense in new ways, creating a more nuanced understanding of our interactions and, often invisible, dynamics within our environments.