In philosophy of mind, ‘qualia’ is defined as instances of subjective and conscious experience. The perceived quality of experience is vividly how it feels from the inside, how it is presented, and how things seem to us. Experiences can be richly colorful, monochromatic, unclad, spatial or kinesthetic, can merge as if they come from unintelligible dimensions, and so on. Qualia, exemplified by sensations like how the blueness of blue feels when we experience it.

How does reality perception seem to us?

The artwork “Qualia” is an individual immersive experience, which seeks to alter the viewer’s perceptually diverse range of experiencing realities. Through an optical and virtual sonic landscape, the user is induced to encounter the ‘reality’, which is juxtaposed inside the eyeball and the image from outside.

Sound Design: Bálint Budai.

Technical support: Vahid Qaderi & Razieh Kooshki.

Qualia is a VR Interactive Installation and immersive visual and sound experience that involves an individual experience with the outside experience that is happening in real time in the physical space where the project is exhibited.