“How The Internet Changed My Life” is a participatory documentary by Nicole Ruggiero, where viewers encounter the elusive entity of The Internet through personal stories. Presented as a large-scale installation, this exhibition includes mixed reality portraits, VR worlds, an AR face filter, and a retro website, sharing life changing moments with The Internet as active experiences.
This is portrait (2/6) created for the exhibition. This portrait is paired with the VR world “Cake Sitting”.
The original photo was taken in Brooklyn, NY in 2018 with a Canon 5D Mark III camera and Sigma 24mm lens. The photo composite was created with Cinema 4D, Daz Studio, Octane Render, and Photoshop.
"How The Internet Changed My Life" was previously shown at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf, Germany (2021) and at HeK Basel during Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland (2021).
