Project Digital Nature
Digital Nature Iteration #1
In a future where we live increasingly in digital worlds, what still keeps us grounded?
Digital Nature is a Virtual Reality installation that explores what happens when our relationship to nature is mediated by technology. Using photogrammetry and other digitisation techniques on nature from the Utrecht region, I isolate fragments of something living and recreate them in Virtual Reality. At that exact moment they become uncoupled from soil, organisms, and climate.
MADE POSSIBLE BY
UNBUILT LONDON
VIRTUAL REALITY INSTALLATION (2025)
12 Minutes
Made by
Lucas Dekker
Sound Design
Manuel de Ruijter
Voice
Richard Strange
3D artist
Anton Vermeer
Script Editing
Okke Dries
Special Thanks
Bea de Visser
Tom Cordell
Jack Chesher
Thanks
Maryam de Vries
Sire Mane
Natalie Andrade
Maren Stam
Tijn Olling
Melanie Kandelaars
Cyrille Bloemers
Tjerk Stoop
Keez Duyves
Joris Weijdom
Robin Krijgsman
Job van Nuenen
Hazal Ates
Ronald Nijhoff
Zalán Szakács
René Lansink
Juli Laczko
Stijn Lijbaart
Arjen Dekker
Theo Deroide
Antoine Deroide
Florence Deroide
Made in Unreal Engine
Sound Produced with FL studio
Audio recorded and Point Clouds scannend in London
Point Clouds scanned with 3D scanner App on iPhone 12 Pro Max
“For a brave future...”
Lucas Dekker is an immersive media artist, working with VR, AR, film and photography. Multidisciplinary and founder of Futura Bravado, graduate of the study Image and Media Technology at the University of Arts Utrecht.
Fascinated by futurism and utopia, Lucas invites audiences to discover new ways of understanding.
Lucas graduated with the HKU award nominated project UNBUILT LONDON. Which explores the unbuilt architecture of London, uncovering the hidden ideologies and values behind architectural visions that never came to be.
Education
2021-2025 Image & Media Technology
University of Arts Utrecht (HKU)
2023 Internship
Stichting Pipslab
2022 XR Minor
University of Arts Utrecht (HKU)
2018-2021 Media
ROC Amsterdam
2019 Internship
Design Innovation Group
2015-2017 Creatief Vakmanschap (crafts, woodworking, fabrics, hatmaking)
Hout en Meubileringscollege (propaedeutic year)
Credits, Perfomances & exhibitions
2025 Digital Nature Iteration #1
TRACES; Exposition @FAAM Utrecht
2025 Unbuilt London
HKU Awards nominated
2024 Whose Democracy - Editor
Documentary
2024 Visiting Casey
Ctrl Alt Play Festival
2024 VR Maze
Culturele Zondagen
2022 Reset Rotterdam - Editor
Documentary