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Museum without Walls

Museum without Walls

Museum without Walls

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© The Kremer Museum

untitled (Levino Fanzeres, oil on agglomerate, undated) - access in augmented reality

Map of the exhibition route across the Museum of Removals (© Luiz Claudio Silva / Museum of Removals collection).

Phi Books (© Antonopoulou & Dare).

untitled (Nair Vervloet, oil on canvas, 1952) - access in augmented reality

Making of sculptures from the rubble of house demolitions at Vila Autódromo (© Luiz Claudio Silva / Museum of Removals collection).

David Hall, TV Interruptions: The Installation, 1971. Screenshot from Unity showing sound design. Programming Sang Hun Yu (© University of Dundee).

Perceptions of the real in museums run the risk of creating a reality of fragmented discourses that, when removed from their original context, prevent us from perceiving an another reality, entirely diverse from our own, building a distorted image of the "other".

The Space Expanding Room: AFAAB in VR - The virtual Ant Farm Antioch Art Building is a digital space constructed from 1971 archival architect’s drawings. In this virtual space, avatars can meet, chat, graffiti, attend events, and make art, just as students were once able to interact in the real space, before it was abandoned in 2008. An AFAAB production. Concept, curating, and direction by Catalina Alvarez and Liz Flyntz. Construction and design by Ty Clapsaddle.

In May 2021, while the Espírito Santo Art Museum – MAES – was closed in between exhibitions, we held an arts and curatorial residency in a replica of the museum hosted in the Mozilla Hubs platform.

Compatible with WebXR standards, Hubs is a virtual reality system more directly integrated to the internet infrastructure and which does not require any equipment more sophisticated than a browser to be used.

During the residency, Hubs was a means for the participants to occupy the MAES’ architecture as a porous simulacrum, open to the most diverse flows of information – media libraries, archive materials, personal memories, and collaborations with the public.

The experience resulted in the versioning of the museum into four different instances, fabricated by AFAAB (Catalina Alvarez, Liz Flyntz, Ty Clapsaddle), Commonolithic, Para Terra Volta Toda Corpa em Matéria (Garu, Pedra Silva, Rodrigo Lopes), and Renato Pera.

The preliminary replica of MAES remains accessible and open to remixes.

MAES Variations

Ongoing