Presence VR/AR

PRESENCE
VR/AR installation, 2025–2026

PRESENCE turns visitors’ IP addresses into colour. A web application reads the four numbers of each visitor’s IP address as values of the RGB colour system and generates a personal gradient in real time. Every visit is stored in a database, and the database becomes the space of the work.

The work exists in two versions. In the VR version, shown on a standalone headset, the visitor enters a fully virtual space of floating gradient panels. In the AR version the panels appear in real space: indoors through a headset with passthrough or on a phone, outdoors on visitors’ phones after scanning a QR code.

Visitors create the data. A QR code placed next to the work invites everyone to record their presence: the scan adds their IP address to the database and a new panel to the space, so the work grows with each person who takes part. PRESENCE makes visible an invisible layer of our everyday connection to technology: the trace each of us leaves simply by being online.

Exhibited: VN Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia (2025); Laurus Gallery, Lovran, Croatia (2025); Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia (2026).