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Museum without Walls

Museum without Walls

Museum without Walls

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Non-space I (the degrading idea of home) - This work seeks to displace and reformulate the social aspect of the WebVR space. Employing verticality, mirroring as well as dislocation of the voice and images of viewer inhabited avatar bodies, it teases out other possibilities of social interaction to be explored. Concept and realization: Commonolithic.

© The Kremer Museum

Dja Guata Porã exhibition, Museu de Arte do Rio, 2017-8.

Since the community was being used as a construction site for the Olympic Park - one of the strategies used to pressure residents and compel families to accept the proposal of the City of Rio de Janeiro -, the sculpture “Suporte dos Males” and part of the sculpture “Espaço Ocupa e Casa da Dona Conceição” were destroyed by tractors.

David Hall, A Situation Envisaged: The Rite II (Cultural Eclipse), 1988-90. VR experience presented at the NEoN Festival, Dundee, 2017. Development by Rhoda Ellis, curating by Adam Lockhart (© Adam Lockhart).

Vitória 18,35 horas (Raphael Samú, screen printing on paper, undated) - access in augmented reality

Rigor Mortis - In this exhibition, the museum is turned into a horror movie setting, where the feeling of reality is distorted: logic falters, the body is shredded, inert objects become animated - life and death, dream and reality get confused. Creation & research: Renato Pera. 3D art: Caio Fazolin. Collaboration: Jye O'Sullivan and Marcos Pavão.

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