In Cyber Soldiers in Cyber Houses (2022) Vi Trinh employs a version of the children’s game I-Spy to examine the implications of the Third Amendment—the protection of citizens’ rights from the government—in data ethics. Using narrative sci-fi and futurism to exaggerate and clarify present patterns in ecology and social inequality, Trinh forces the player to work against the clock to debug all thirty-five levels of their house. The levels get increasingly difficult and absurd while two A.I. guide them through the home. Cyber Soldiers in Cyber Houses is a project commissioned for Shall Make Shall Be: the bill of rights at play and made possible by the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO of Creative Inquiry. It was created using Blender, Unity, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects.
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Checkout Vi’s Q+A on Cyber Soldiers in Cyber Houses here.
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Checkout Vi’s contributions to Digital America over the years.
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Vi Trinh is a Vietnamese American artist currently based in London, UK. She graduated from the University of Richmond in 2019 and is currently a MFA student at Goldsmiths University of London.
