This work is a self-exploration based on my personal data with internet-based technologies, utilizing the web, coding, physical computing, video, virtual reality, and installation. I am using keywords from my memories shared online and values of my health data captured by my smartwatch to reconstruct myself through virtual avatars, a story of my growth, and new bodies in which to hold these avatars and stories. This also reflects my identity as a newcomer from China, migrating to an open new world that blends analog and digital.

We are generating more and more digital data, and virtual life is becoming increasingly dominant. Personal identities are becoming interchangeable and indistinguishable between the virtual and real worlds. Through this work, I explore the inter-transformative relationship between the real and the virtual, the tangible and the intangible, the material and the immaterial, and the thing and the non-thing.

Meanwhile, technology is also extending its tendrils into the most personal spheres of humans, commoditizing personal data as a lucrative venture. I aim to engage in the claiming of sovereignty over our personal data, creating a space where personal data transcends commercial value and morphs into a playground for self-reflection, artistic expression, creativity, and exploration.

It started on GitHub (https://wenjunii.github.io/Lifeography/) and developed into a narrative video (trailer), virtual reality experience (panoramic screen recording) and WebXR.

这件作品是我在互联网和技术领域的自我探索，通过网页、编码、视频和虚拟现实体验为媒介。基于我的个人数据，使用来自我的记忆的关键词和我的健康数据的数字，我正在重建虚拟化身，我的成长故事，以及承载这些故事和记忆的身体/容器。这也反映了我作为一个来自中国的新移民，迁移到一个混合了模拟和数字的新世界的身份。我们现在正在生成越来越多的虚拟数据，虚拟生活变得越来越占主导地位。个人身份在虚拟世界和现实世界之间变得可以互换，并难以区分。通过这项工作，我探索了现实与虚拟、有形与无形、物质与非物质、事物与非事物之间的相互转化关系。

这件作品始于GitHub (https://wenjunii.github.io/Lifeography/)，并发展成为叙事视频(预告片), 虚拟现实体验(全景屏幕录制)和网页XR。