POP-corn creates a new pseudo-natural typology in a virtual environment with organic elements that are plastic in nature. The objects and figures which occupy this world are inspired from primitive organics that have been subject to the elemental laws of the virtual world. As these organisms evolve in response to their environment they have grown and morphed to embody the characteristics of their virtual ecosystem.

Similar to how individuals “surf the web,” POP-corn embodies that explorative experience, where the character avatars serve as personifications of the users, and the constructed world serves as an immersive representation of the “web,” rather the digital environment, around them.  The users visiting the world take agency over their inhabited environment by engaging within it. This world now exists forever in the digital memory, and through the user interactions, will never stop evolving. The title is inspired by the evolution of the world, as you start with a kernel of an idea and it is put through the process of evolution a reaction of creativity sparks the ingenuity of this reality. 

As the user explores, no experience can be identical to another, and they are presented with a series of connected spaces which play on the figures of the objects around them. Characters are encouraged to explore the world at their leisure, encountering these spaces in any progression of their choice. These individual exploration sequences invoke unique personable interpretations of the experiences within the environment that helps to shape our understanding of the world.

 The immediate ground freely floats in space, surrounded by other similar but independent ground pieces, suggesting that the “field” the users explore is just one of many. A field of figural expressions shows a connected world in evolution that has the opportunity to grow into new forms from initial primitives using similar typologies.

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