ACTANTS

Google Maps is not a neutral tool; it is a geopolitical layer that decides which territories  exist, which are distorted, and which are erased. But within these controlled, absent, or  fabricated territories, something extraordinary occurs: citizens, algorithms, community mapping  projects, and armchair cartographers act simultaneously as what Bruno Latour calls actants: human  and non-human agents who construct parallel maps from the margins of the hegemonic system, based  on logics that the official map cannot encompass.  

ACTANTS is an immersive installation constructed from spherical photographs, reconstructions, and  coordinates uploaded by citizens in geopolitically restricted or erased territories.  The installation uses algorithmic systems for its musical and narrative composition, including  coordinate displacement systems such as GCJ-02. The selected territories are processed using  digital photogrammetry and artificial intelligence to reconstruct 3D environments. Visitors enter  wearing virtual reality headsets and navigate a shared 3D world: between four and eight people  simultaneously inhabit territories that the system has declared invisible.  

A multichannel audio system floods the shared physical space, while the headset's binaural audio  combines with gestures and a specific sound design. A screen visible to those outside shows the  same world from another perspective: two simultaneous ways of witnessing the same disappearance.  

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The work is presented as an installation that can be experienced in scheduled sessions. A second  mode—a live immersive programmed concert—activates the same system, with the artist performing in  real time via TidalCycles, simultaneously programming the sound and the space. Target audience:  diaspora communities for whom restricted territories hold personal significance; internet users  who have felt the unease of a blank space on the map; and the general public who experience  immersion as a collective rather than a solitary activity.