Produced within the Pilot Artists Residency (Lab)
Virtual installation, Newart.city
A buffet in a carrier bag treats the virtual environment as both storage device and psychological container.
The work begins with weight: 30.8 megabytes of digital matter. A carrier bag becomes a vessel of fiction - swinging, accumulating, holding fragments. FBX files, PDFs, missing textures. Broken assets and buffet menus. Objects that once belonged to something coherent now persist as residue.
Within the 3D environment, the “player” is described as a void. An absence moving through space. The bag becomes an attempt to fill that emptiness — with objects, echoes, data remnants and orphaned geometries.
Orbs. Planes. OBJs. Sounds.
A shopping list of remembering.
The work suggests that identity within digital space is constructed through accumulation rather than essence. The bag does not resolve the void; it circulates it. Memory becomes portable, unstable and materially thin.
Ben Dawson’s practice navigates the material language of digital production - 3D assets, file formats, textures and environments - as carriers of narrative and personal residue.
In A buffet in a carrier bag, the logic of consumer storage collides with virtual architecture. The shopping bag becomes a metaphor for the self in networked space: temporary, overloaded, endlessly reassembled.