GOTO 10
VR Installation by DARUM
VR Installation | A 2026 | 8 Minutes | Stationary (rotating chair)
© DARUM
Conceived as a reverberation of DARUM’s critically-acclaimed 90-minute VR performance "[EOL]. End of Life" (2024), the VR installation "GOTO 10“ invites the audience to sit on a rotating chair and, via a Meta Quest 3 headset, enter an abandoned digital children’s world.
The server connection is cut, yet the world echoes on: a “legacy” figure, modeled after a deceased 10-year-old, builds spaces and worlds, tears them down, decorates rain, light, and ruins—and speaks to us. Between empty hospital corridors, endless concrete halls, and a sea of debris, time appears frozen—a lonely experience of an algorithm trapped in a loop. The terror lies in the gentle—yet no less monstrous—logic of a system that keeps calculating beyond its purpose, for eternity. The installation asks how much life digital echoes hold, what remains of us when no one is watching, and how a future feels in which even virtual spaces die.
Dates
Lentos Art Museum
Linz/Donau, Austria
Doktor-Ernst-Koref-Promenade 1, 4020 Linz
February 6th - May 10th, 2026
Duration:
About 8 Minutes.
Credits:
Direction & Story: Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche (DARUM) 3D Architecture & Digital Room Design: Mark Surges Sound Design, Music, Creative Coding, Motion Capturing, Animationen & Lighting Design: Kai Krösche Character Design & Animationen: Victoria Halper Additional Sound Design: Arthur Fussy
With: Victoria Halper
work builds on the narrative and aesthetic framework of the DARUM production “[EOL]. End of Life” and was commissioned by the Lentos Museum Linz.
“[EOL]. End of Life” is a co-production with brut Wien and was funded by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna as well as the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts and Culture. It was developed during a residency at ZKM. We would like to thank all those involved.
Technical Specifications:
Fully immersive virtual reality experience
Programmed in Unity, developed exclusively for Meta Quest 3
Movement area: 2 m × 2 m (swivel chair)
Sound format: ambisonics & stereo
Frame rate: 72 fps (stereoscopic)
Language: English
Museums:
2026
Linz/Donau - Lentos (Exhibition: The World Without Us)