About:

Shadow of Unknowing is an interactive digital artwork created by Visiting Fellow in Visual Arts Yambe Tam during her artist residency at ICMS. It is inspired by deformations of spacetime in and around black holes, visualisations of higher dimensions, and the process of mathematical discovery through collective and individual efforts. Participants are invited to play-test the work-in-progress; these sessions will help shape user interactions and further development of the work.

Yambe Tam is a visual artist based in London creating immersive experiences and installations that contemplate the fluid nature of reality. She builds virtual worlds in the form of experimental video games and interactive digital works, often using emerging technologies to expand the limits of the human sensorium and reveal other layers of reality on microscopic to planetary scales. 

Her research-based projects have been exhibited internationally, including at FACT, Liverpool (2021), Artsformation, online (2021), WASD Curios, London (2022), The Korean Cultural Centre, Berlin & London (2022-23), Two Temple Place, London (2023), The Art House, Wakefield (2023) and The Royal Society of Sculptors, London (2023). She has previously been artist in residence with Jerwood Arts/FACT Digital Fellowship (2021); the Wellcome Centre for Ethics & Humanities at University of Oxford (2022-23); and Abandon Normal Devices’ New Cinema Days (2023).