diplorasis, Nicosia, CY, 2015 - 19
project author: parasight - George Themistokleous; software engineer: Savvas Socratous; Photographic technical setup: George Athanasiou

Diplorasis, translated as doubled vision, is a custom-made interactive corridor located inside an abandoned house (Agios Andreas, Nicosia). Replicating a funhouse-mirrored room, the participant who enters this space is not prepared for what is in store. Every surface of the corridor is lined up with mirrors, except for a cavity at the end of the corridor that takes the form of a receptacle for the head. As one moves towards this cavity, they experience the fun-house infinity reflecting experience. Amplifying the disorientation within the infinitely reflected space, are subtle spatial distortions - e.g. slight dropping of the ceiling tiles - that draw once attention to a changeable and unexpected depth-like illusionistic space. Once the participant reaches the end of the corridor, they are invited to position their face inside the receptacle. What one will see through the peepholes are three-dimensional screen re-presentations of oneself from the previous moments in space and time, in stereoscopic three-dimensional depth. One sees oneself seeing oneself from the viewpoint of someone else. The participant’s likeness iwas secretly reproduced whilst they were inside the corridor, some of the mirrors were two way mirrors. One’s image is digitally captured, scanned, processed and three-dimensionally re-projected back to the viewer in ‘real’ time. The duplicated, projected, looped and three-dimensionally simulated self in diplorasis triggers a self-referential perception of oneself that questions the singularity of the self within digitized media. The out-of-body experience triggered by the image exceeds produces a ‘shock’.