peer to space launches Virtual Art Space with inaugural show (Im)Material Matter

With its Virtual Art Space, peer to space further develops the concept of their previous online exhibitions. In the virtual exhibition space on the open source platform Mozilla Hubs. With the Virtual Art Space, peer to space establishes a new presentation format beyond the white cube to fully embrace the potential of the virtual realm independent from physical limitations. The open and dynamic structure of the floating islands allows to explore and engage with new forms of digital curating.

Spatial Design by Mohsen Hazrati

(IM)MATERIAL MATTER

Curated by Peggy Schoenegge

With works by Banz & Bowinkel, Entangled Others (Sofia Crespo and Feileacan McCormick), Mohsen Hazrati, Armin Keplinger, Nadine Kolodziey, Lauren Moffatt, Chiara Passa, Sabrina Ratté, Dagmar Schürrer

 Opening & Launch: Oct 28, 2021, 7 pm (CET)

Link: hubs.mozilla.com/owtpwaD/im-material-matter

(Im)Material Matter is dedicated to digital sculptures, their material and matter. The works highlight the potential of sculptural artworks in the virtual realm. Beyond the restrictions of physicality, sculptures take on new shapes and forms. The sculptural works float in the exhibition space. They do not need a bottom or plinth to stand on. This positioning makes them perceptible and accessible from every conceivable viewpoint, even from below and above. Their size can be freely determined. The 3D shapes of the sculptures are not static, but dynamic. Some consist of several parts moving freely in space. How the works are installed in the virtual art space would not be possible in the physical and creates a new approach to sculptures. As a result, they shift the parameters of the traditional definition of sculpture by deconstructing its solid matter. The constitution of the space, the textures of the void as well as the shape of the sculptures simulate materiality. Their surfaces are reminiscent of physical material like metal, plastic, or clay. They hyper realistically allude to tangible materials. In the exhibition, the sculptures become permeable. Visitors can pass through and enter the inner sphere of the artwork. The dissolution of physical boundaries once again reveals the distinctive conditions of the virtual. The works oscillate between the material and immaterial, defining a matter of virtual materiality.

With kind support by Stiftung Kunstfonds | NEUSTART KULTUR

Virtual Worlds - The Future Of WebVR and SocialVR in Art and Society

Virtual Worlds - The Future Of WebVR and SocialVR in Art and Society

Wednesday June 16, 5 - 5.55 pm CEST

As a part of the 1000Vordenker’s talk series 55 Min Gatherings, peer to space’s director & head curator Tina Sauerlaender will speak about SocialVR’s and WebVR’s impact on the art scene during the pandemic and its consequences for our society and its further developments.

More information: 1000Vordenker.com

Watch the short version of the talk here.

LIGHT SHINES THROUGH THE CURTAINS OF TIME

Ornella Fieres, Inverse Fourier 36, 2021 (c) the artist

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On February 10, 2021, peer to space and PRISKA PASQUER kick off PRISKA PASQUER's new ONE TO ONE exhibition series in the new virtual gallery space on Mozilla Hubs with the exhibition LIGHT SHINES THROUGH THE CURTAINS OF TIME, solo exhibition by Ornella Fieres, curated by Tina Sauerlaender.

PRISKA PASQUER's virtual gallery space on Mozilla Hubs will be inaugurated with a new exhibition series called ONE TO ONE, that signifies that the artist and curator are meeting at eye level and developing an exhibition in a mutual exchange. For the kick-off of the ONE TO ONE series, peer to space and PRISKA PASQUER gallery cooperate. In the upcoming months, four curators from peer to space will each present one of four artists whose work addresses the impact of digitization on the individual and society. Curator Tina Sauerlaeender and artist Ornella Fieres will kick things off with the exhibition Light Shines Through The Curtains Of Time.

The title of the exhibition was borrowed from the video work I create paths that lead to the clouds in which we go (2020), in which an artificial intelligence creates a poetic-dystopian vision of the end times based on all the texts that have been written about Ornella Fieres' works to date. In the works of artist Ornella Fieres, new technologies meet analog found objects from times past. The artist instrumentalizes photographs from personal estates and archival material from scientific films for her own purposes. She is concerned with "transferring the past into the present and making the invisible processes of the digital visible." Her works show the world of yesterday, seen through the eyes of today's algorithms.

Exhibition on view from February 10 to March 9, 2021.

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Tina Sauerlaender becomes Art & Tech columnist for Netzpiloten.de

Tina Sauerlaender started to contribute to Netzpiloten.de with a column on Art & Tech on the German platform for the online magazine Netzpiloten.de that focuses on digital and tech.

Netzpiloten.de are among the digital pioneers in Germany. Founded in 1998 in Hamburg by Wolfgang Macht and Matthias Dentler, the company was one of the prominent representatives of the so-called New Economy. As such, it experienced the ups and downs of this economic phase with innovative network products. Today, the Netzpiloten, with around 75 employees in Hamburg, Berlin and Barcelona, work in the fields of digital marketing and digital publications. In particular, the independent magazine netzpiloten.de has accompanied the digital change for over 15 years.

See her first text on WebVR conferences here

See her profile on netzpiloten.de here