Hypertext 2025 Virtual Reality Exhibition in the CAVE2 VR Environment
Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)
842 W Taylor St. Room 2036
Chicago IL 60607
September 16, 2025 @ 6.30pm

Your VR Theater experience awaits!

Plunge into the surrounds of our burning forests. Explore the ghostly seams of the logistical city.

Immersive CAVE2 Virtual Reality Exhibition -- Hidden Costs of Logistics and the Disappearing Wild -- highlights immersive projects that explore the intersections of anthropology, design, theater, creative coding, typography, and hypertext interaction to tackle some of the world’s most complex problems. From disappearing ecosystems to the invisible machinery behind global supply chains, each project invites participants to observe and reflect on the environmental, social, and economic impacts shaping the American Midwest and our planetary well-being.

Developed by multi-institutional teams of anthropologists, artists, and computer scientists from the University of Chicago, UIC, and Yale, and created by the Creative Coding participants in the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), these VR experiences confront pressing global challenges with ethnographic insight and design innovation. Participants will journey through digitally rendered 360 landscapes of deforestation and the unseen logistical labor behind everyday commodities. By merging art, technology, and interactive hypertext in storytelling, these projects advance critical conversations around climate change, social justice, and the hidden infrastructures that sustain -- and strain -- life on Earth.

Supported and organized by the Hypertext2025 Conference, the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), the Department of Computer Science and the School of Design at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.

Featured Projects:
CAVE2 Virtual Reality Exhibition: Project Fulfillment
by Daria Tsoupikova, Julie Y. Chu, Alexandria Schmidt, Harini Kumar, Shahira Bhasha, Gaeun Lee, Eunseo Ko, Kenzell Huggins, Darshan Shet and Farah Kamleh

Interactive VR Exhibition: Why Must We Make It All Burn?
by Alexandra Preuss

ACM Hypertext 2025 Conference website.

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