I’m interested in the intersection of technology, humanities research, and spirituality. As part of the eXtended Humanities Lab (HKU), I have been developing Virtual Reality films designed to enhance atmospheric literacies.
This includes Bovine Calling 喚/幻牛, created in collaboration with Emily Yu Zong, an immersive film about eco-vulnerability in Hong Kong. It takes people into the entangled worlds of buffalos, cows, and humans as they navigate precarity and alterity in village and city life. [webpage][flyer]
Healing Atmospheres 癒氛 is a technodelic virtual reality film attuned to the environmental temporalities of illness. Through an immersive narrative set in Hong Kong, the film weaves altered perceptions that saturate spaces of care. Medical futurism and algorithmic presences shape the tempo and agency of these atmospheres. The film composes healing as an unstable choreography where spaces are animated by the longing to be otherwise. [webpage]
Alex K. Gearin 