Virtual Reality Social Housing Neighborhood Compilation, 15 min 51 se, 2018 - 2020
The Szívküldi Lakótelep (szívküldi= heart-sent, lakótelep=social housing neighborhood) is a multi-layered virtual reality Social Housing Neighborhood (a #memoryconnector) that considers the possibilities and dangers of ‘home’ in cyberspace. This form is based on Judit’s upbringing: being flown on large kites and growing up in a comfort flat on the 8th floor in the late communist era of Hungary. She has moved between several different countries and cultures in her lifetime, and relies on digital means to connect to people and places in an attempt to construct ‘home’. Her projects are as much affective mappings of what it means to continuously oscillate between analog and digital, past and present. The Neighborhood’s districts build on each other. The shell of one area becomes the beginning structure for another, creating a self-recycling system.
This guide video is a compilation of different areas, including:
1. NOWSCHOOL Preschool // 2020 April // based on Congregation Emanu-El Preschool
2. Sweat Lodge Circle // 2019 August // Diary
3. Cultural House // 2018 October // Archive of Naming Gallery
4. Residential Area // 2018 November // built in Digital Doulas @ Naming Gallery // Ryan Peter*
5. Digital Doulas @ SWIM Gallery // 2019 September // Eric Dyer*
6. "The sky is the greatest cinema" // 2018 May // Diary
7. UNCOMFY IS COMFY // 2018 December // Diary
*The credit of all participants can be found on the
Szívküldi Lakótelep Youtube playlist.
In the
Digital Doulas Art Camp event, Navratil proposes a collaboration for building a virtual reality Art Camp together. She will be the tour guide of the Szívküldi Lakótelep and visitors can look around in its web version. While she reserves some parts of the Szívküldi Lakótelep for herself as a diary, other sections welcome all participants to ‘move in’ with their own treasures through the Digital Doulas Workshops – that used to maintain balance between social and virtual realities. This online edition focuses on planting the seeds of the next area: The Art Camp. The Art Camp could be a virtual artist residency, a platform for sharing art, ideas, critique, care, or experiment with performance. Judit invites her communities to readjust their connections, to elevate the shift of their up-scaling digital existence and to alternate the horizons of the Metaverse together.
