Tina Sauerlaender at AAMC panel on Reimagining Art in Virtual Realms

Reimagining art in Virtual Realms

A discussion on digital advancement and ways virtual realms can be used to reimagine exhibitions and social experiences.

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As art organizations work towards becoming more digitally advanced many are turning to virtual, augmented, and extended reality to leverage technology engaging audiences. This webinar brings both international curators and artists into dialogue to discuss ways virtual realms can be used to reimagine exhibitions and social experiences, as well as reconsider the role of the spectator. Panelists will also address issues of collecting, conserving, and DEAI within the context of VR, AR, and XR.

Speakers:

Michael Kam Barngrover, XR Researcher / Developer, Koç University KARMA Lab

Alfredo Salazar-Caro, Creative Director / Artist, Digital Museum of Digital Art (DiMoDA)

Tina Sauerlaender, Director & Head Curator, peer to space

Tamiko Thiel, artist

Julie Walsh, Independent Curator of Digital Art, Walsh Projects; Moderator

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Exhibition on Virtual Reality at HeK Basel

The Unframed World
Virtual Reality As Artistic Medium For The 21st Century

Alfredo Salazar-Caro, Portrait of Elizabeth Mputu, 3D scanned data, custom software, 2016

Artists: Li Alin (CAN/DE), Banz & Bowinkel (DE), Fragment.In (CH), Martha Hipley (US), Rindon Johnson (US), Marc Lee (CH), Mélodie Mousset & Naëm Baron (FR/CH), Rachel Rossin (US), Alfredo Salazar-Caro (US)

Curated by: Tina Sauerländer (peer to space)

Opening: 18.01.2017 at 6 pm with an artist talk and a performance by Li Alin

Rindon Johnson, “Photographed Still from Meet in the Corner (Publishing House, 2016)”

Duration: 19.01.2017 - 05.03.2017

At: HeK - House of Electronic Arts Basel, Freilager-Platz 9, 4142 Münchenstein/Basel, Switzerland

(c) Li Alin

With the market launch of technologies suitable for the masses, Virtual Reality experiences a first time large-scale popularity as artistic medium. By means of a headset, the viewer enters a three-dimensional world devoid of the limiting edges of a screen, projection sheet or room. The Unframed World is the first extensive presentation of artistic exploration of the VR medium at the HeK (House of Electronic Arts Basel). The international group exhibit shows works, which bind the virtual environment together with the physical exhibition space.

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