Virtual Ziggurat

ČOḠĀ ZANBĪL 


Link to the Web XR project:

https://ziggurat-chogha.glitch.me


Virtual Arts Science Residency at the Royal Astronomical Society, London, UK

There was some form of religion and spirituality linked to my childhood memories. My entire childhood I was trained to believe in someone else’s spiritual experience, otherwise known as Islam. This was while I was born in a region surrounded by numerous cultural heritages such as Choghazanbil Ziggurat which were dated back to thousands of years before the occurrence of Islam. Playing and raising in such a complex environment changed and formed me as a different person, someone who was not believing in someone else’s experience with divinity, but the one who experiences spirituality on her own.

The Virtual Ziggurat is a web XR project which is built based on the Choghaznabil Ziggurat in my hometown, Shush, Iran. All around the ziggurat in the current site in Iran are bricks with Elamite cuneiform inscriptions on them. The name of the builder and the purpose of the construction of the building is the subject that these brick inscriptions narrate. The inscriptions of thousands of bricks talk to the visitors in an unknown forgotten language.

The entire ziggurat was reconstructed as a 3d model then programmed as an interactive XR environment on the A-frame portal to create a forum for people to send their thoughts and speak to this semi-abandoned wire-shaped temple.
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