7100AD, 2020-ongoing

virtual reality video game (duration variable)

Oculus Quest 2 + Link, gaming PC

7100AD is an experimental, meditative video game set in a posthistoric Earth that challenges anthropocentric perceptions of the natural world through the embodiment of non-human species across three realms: a wild bee on a newly-formed desert island, a marine plankton, and an underground mycelial network. 7100AD illuminates unexpected links between humans and non-human species and how these are changing in the face of Earth’s sixth mass extinction. 

Focusing on the effects of climate change, habitat destruction, pollution, and industrial agriculture, 7100AD projects forward to the earliest possible date of human extinction. It uses research-based world-building to create an environmental model of the future Earth, as well as the sensory ecology of other species. Through exploration, discovery, interspecies collaboration and cyclical reincarnation, players slowly piece together the future history of humankind and the planet.

INSTALLATION VIEWS

CREDITS

Yambe Tam, lead artist

Albert Barbu, software developer

Dylan Henry Price, sound designer

Special thanks to the University of Cambridge Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge and Chittka Lab - The Bee Sensory and Behavioural Ecology Lab of Queen Mary University, London.

AWARDS

WASD, Curios - Official Selection (2022)

EGX Rezzed, The Leftfield Collection - Official Selection (2020)