Digital Body Culture

Digital Body Culture was a week-long research and development project exploring identity, embodiment, and agency in digital environments. Hosted in the immersive visualisation and simulation lab at Norwich University of the Arts, the project brought together academics, technologists, and 15 students to investigate how we construct, perform, and experience the “digital body.”

Working with motion capture, 3D scanning, layered sound, and a 360° immersive screen, participants created a speculative installation that blurred the line between user and avatar, control and surrender. The project was grounded in posthuman theory and developed through rapid prototyping, collaborative design, and critical reflection.

The installation interrogated digital identity as fragmented, unstable, and shaped by systems of surveillance, data, and performance. Visitors encountered uncanny digital doubles and shifting control dynamics, prompting reflection on visibility, recognition, and what it means to be a body in the age of simulation.