wwwunderkammer from XR to social VR - Carla Gannis

Agora Digital Art

How the XR solo exhibition was transformed into a social VR exhibition

on Zoom. The talk will be recorded and live streamed.Carla Gannis’ <a href="https://agoradigital.art/blog-agora-talk-carla-gannis-cabinet-of-curiosities/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">wwwunderkammer</a> appeals to the 16th – Century “Cabinets of Curiosity” to consider the uncanny complications of grounded reality and virtual reality, nature and artifice, science and science fiction in contemporary digital culture, while building virtual worlds, founded upon de-colonizing, post-human, and feminist archives. The wwwunderkammer is an ongoing project positioning information for the future into a living archive: with a cascading group of hubs, Gannis queries what is the method and potential of an immersive virtual archive 🗃,a dynamic evolving space that welcomes live interactions while hosting records, data, and stories of things past.About <a href="https://agoradigital.art/women-digital-artists/artists-profile/carla-gannis/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Carla Gannis</a>Carla Gannis (b. 1970) is an American artist who lives in Brooklyn, NY. She produces transmedia works that consider the uncanny complications between grounded and virtual reality, nature and artifice, science and science fiction in contemporary culture — inviting viewers to experience life “through a digital looking glass” where reflections on power, sexuality, marginalization, and agency emerge. Gannis’s work has appeared in exhibitions, screenings and internet projects across the globe. Recent projects include “Portraits in Landscape,” Midnight Moment, Times Square Arts, NY and “Sunrise/Sunset,” Whitney Museum of American Art, Artport. Gannis received an MFA in painting from Boston University, and currently, she is an Industry Professor at New York University (NYU) in the Integrated Digital Media Program, Department of Technology, Culture and Society, Tandon School of Engineering. She is also a Year 7 Member of NEW INC, in the XR: Bodies in Space track.

wwwunderkammer from XR to social VR - Carla Gannis

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