ABOUT
The title "Bisexual Bedroom Imaginaries" represents a series of prototypes of three-dimensional collages designed for virtual reality. The work brings together digitized objects, spaces, drawings, and texts from my personal fonds, assembling surrealist configurations of queer-coded objects acquired from two decades of adolescence into early adulthood. The project invites its audience to witness, or perhaps to immersively experience, a subjective articulation of queer-ness and femme-ness that has been curated using virtual reality as an emergent tool for archival and/or performance research.

RATIONALE
The aim of this project is to explore the opportunities, challenges, and ethics of ‘queering’ virtual reality design. Here, I position ‘queering’ as a subversive orientation towards the technosocial norms governing contemporary virtual reality design, an action requiring imagination and (re)creation in the process of constructing conceptual and material alternatives. My research leverages queer and feminist phenomenologies, performance theories, and archival scholarship towards a vision of a queer virtual reality design practice informed by partiality, hybridity, possibility, creativity, and play—one which does not seek to project trans-feminist-queer experience onto its audiences, but create space for subjective queer readings and counter-readings, interpretations, sensations, and resonances within virtual worlds.

DEVELOPMENT HISTORY
This project began at the 17th Ammerman Centre Biennal Symposium on Arts and Technology (2022), facilitated with guidance and technical support from Daniel Lichtman and his Community Game Development Kit. It was further developed into working prototypes during a graduate fellowship with the Centre for Culture and Technology (2023), and worked into a chapter of SSHRC-CGS-funded doctoral research at the University of Toronto (2024). An early prototype was published in the Hyperrhiz 27: New Media Cultures peer-reviewed journal, specifically in the "Blanket Forts and Other Assemblages" Special Issue, edited by Lichtman et al. A scholarly journal article reflecting on the practice-as-research is currently in process.