Till Holzapfel
Mesmer Prism is a writing and systems practice around altered perception, weakly bounded embodiment, and forms that stay legible while they change. I return to how one might live with transformation without giving up coherence: how strange perception can be taken seriously without hardening into dogma, how bodies can stay porous and inhabitable, and how forms can loosen and gather again without dissolving into noise. Plasmatic Multitudes is one name for that inquiry.
Organized surface
The work splits between public-facing projects and deeper private notebooks. This section keeps the public edge legible: what is live, what is published, and where each thread currently touches the world.
Current project
Bio-responsive VR for breath-based interaction, interoception, affective regulation, and embodied HCI. I work on immersive environments that connect physiological signals, real-time visuals, and interaction design on standalone XR hardware.
Writing and design research
A research program on semi-corporeal avatars, weakly bounded bodies, and how transformable forms can remain legible in XR, media theory, and interactive design. This project holds together a large part of the conceptual and aesthetic spine behind my XR work.
Writing and conceptual synthesis
Short for Somaesthetic, Anthropotechnical, Noetic, and Emergence, this is a long-form writing line on inner ecology, technics, morphogenesis, and the problem of coordinating plural ways of knowing without surrendering either rigor or enchantment. It is the clearest place where mythic imagination, relation, and methodological discipline meet in my work.
Altered perception and induced vision
A cluster of writing and prototype work on induced vision, fractal structure, static motion, and cyberdelic design. The through-line is the attempt to describe strange visual phenomena precisely enough to build and test rather than mythologize.
Imagery, suggestion, and mechanism
This line tracks imagery variation, suggestion, porosity, retinal stimulation, and mechanism claims around visionary experience. It is where subjective difference becomes something to source, compare, and argue carefully rather than hand-wave.
Code and prototyping surface
My public repositories cover static sites, browser simulations, diagnostics, survey infrastructure, sensor tooling, and parts of the broader XR stack. The code surface is only a subset of the work, but it shows how the writing and systems sides connect.
Selected outputs across immersive systems, psychophysics, breath interaction, and XR communication.
My background moves between cognitive science, HCI, psychophysics, media theory, and research writing. I use writing to stabilize concepts, lineages, and claims, then carry those questions into XR systems, browser simulations, physiological sensing, and embodied prototypes.
Across Plasmatic Multitudes, SANE, Brain Candy, Deep Dream, Optical Movement Illusions, Phenomenological Control, and Fractal Optics, I keep returning to altered perception, weakly bounded bodies, phenomenological variation, and the practical conditions that make strange experience legible without flattening it.
If you are building something across XR, altered perception, embodiment, research tooling, or interdisciplinary writing and design, I am happy to talk.