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The Station

Vi Trinh

The Station is the second installation of The Bunker Series a series of interactive netart pieces about post-apocalyptic shelters. The Bunker Series began with Escape which took place after the end of the world in a bunker underground and it was inspired by Plato’s Cave. The Station takes place in a space station and is based on the Myth of Sisyphus and deconstructs aesthetics of nostalgia as a weapon of ideology.

Two A.I. Sabrina and Alex accompany the viewer through the 43 rooms while narrating.

Experience The Station

About the Artist

Vi Trinh graduated from the University of Richmond in 2019 with a B.A. in Visual and Media Arts Practice & Leadership. A Vietnamese-American artist based in D.C. she works in digital and traditional media to examine the relationship between ecological and social patterns.

She synthesizes data to confront ideas of colonialism and white supremacy within our current social context. Her work explores ideas of rich aesthetics in ecological emergencies and the temporal reality created by large-scale phenomena. Much of her work is based in the internet and comes from the ethos of the internet as an illusionary space and the interaction with its interface. The internet as it appears; democratic, and free, and the reality of exclusionary design by the very few and the profits they gain from it. It has become the new ground of a very old problem. Between the environment and people, the disenfranchised and society, the user and the internet.

She deconstructs exclusionary and pop aesthetics and the ideology created and peddled by them, and their use as a tool of powerful structures.