In exclusivity for Agora; @KLevy75 from @Aika.Connection  introduced us the “Forgetter”, the new VR Game concept to host the prestigious #DSLcollection.

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What did we learn?

What are the curatorial challenges to build narratives and immersive experiences in different environments: such as #VRChat or on #Stream - the gaming platform.

DSLCollection

From the very beginning of setting up the DSLcollection in 2005, Dominique and Sylvain Levy wanted to establish a model that would make collecting art continuously active and meaningful, always moving with the shifting times.

This collection pursues an interactive and participatory approach, redefining the traditional relationships between art and its audience, deconsecrating the public’s approach to art, avoiding any intimidation and countering the notion of art as elitist.

In 2010, the collection was the first available on an IPad. In 2012, the collection built a museum on Second Life. In 2016, DSLcollection was among the first private collections to build a VR museum.

Today, DSLcollection embarks on a new journey in the video game realm. For the collection, this new adventure is a creative project that uses gaming as a language.

@dslcollection @dominiquelevy_dslcollection

About The Forgetter

@forgetter_thegame is the game where you erase traumatic memories to recycle a creative brain

The “Forgetter” will go live in Steam mid-March 2021. https://www.forgetter.net/

Created by game developers Alan Kwan and Yang Jing of Sometimes Monastery, “Forgetter” allows players to assume the role of someone tasks to destroying artists’ traumatic memories in order to make them more creative. 🧠 @alankwan828

About @AgoraDigitalArt

Agora Digital Art is a certified social enterprise. We are one of the most dynamic creative hubs in London. We champion artists who have something to say. We bring diverse communities and artists together. With your generous support, we will build the best digital network.

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#KarenLevy #aika #aikaselection #forgetter #forgetterthegame #dslcollection #digitalartcollector #contemporarychineseart #gameart #videogames

Tamiko Thiel, Multimedia artist and Jon Uriarte, Digital Curator at The Photographers’ Gallery for Lend Me Your Face – Go Fake Yourself! a participatory deep fake artificial intelligence project on view at TPG until 17 March 2021.

This project uses deep fake artificial intelligence technology to animate single photos of faces with facial expressions and body language "borrowed" from driving videos of public figures.

With deep fake AI technology, the face - the most intimate and yet public part of the self - and the emotions it expresses can more and more easily be manipulated and placed in contexts out of the control of the "lenders" of the faces themselves.

What have we learned?

About @AgoraDigitalArt

Agora Digital Art is a certified social enterprise. We are one of the most dynamic creative hubs in London. We champion artists who have something to say. We bring diverse communities and artists together. With your generous support, we will build the best digital network.

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The new podcast series Curator’s Radar continues with the extended reality artist @LucyJWheeler 

Learn more about her work series “Just In Time”, her collaboration with various artists to create a community in the metaverse.

She also is the co-founder and creative director at The Immersive Kind.

This Curator’s Radar episode is hosted and curated by @AdrianStClair, Digital Curator @AgoraDigitalArt

About the Artist:

Lucy Wheeler (b. 1995) is an extended reality artist living and working in London, UK. She teaches digital technologies at London College of Fashion and has co-founded The Immersive Kind, an art advanced technology organisation and creative extended reality (XR) studio.

Wheeler explores the chaos in our world and is a London-based art, sustainability and metaverse creator and researcher. She has worked in creative technology outreach and exhibited online and offline whilst also establishing herself as a creative director for contemporary art and creative technology industries.

Wheeler has given talks for various cultural organisations including, Brazil Immersive Fashion Week, British Film Institute, Digital Catapult, Chelsea College of Arts, Digital Maker Collective, Plymouth College of Art, Somerset House, Studio Wayne McGregor, Tate Exchange, Women in 3D Printing.

After achieving a First Class BA (Hons) Fine Arts degree at University Arts London, she was invited to be the July 19 Gazell.io Digital Art House resident, toured her virtual reality project, ‘Just-in-Time’ at multiple pop-up art and tech events with The Immersive Kind. Wheeler has been selected to exhibit in various group art exhibitions at art spaces including A.P.T Gallery and Wimbledon Space.

#LucyWheeler #curatorsradar #AdrianStClair #AgoraDigitalArt #WomenInDigitalArt #WomenInVR #WomenInXR #WomenInAR

Lucy Wheeler, Creative Director at The Immersive Kind, shared insights into their recent projects in the metaverse. She showcased the artists The Immersive Kind collaborated with, unveilling how creative practitioners use digital tools to shape our realities as we know it.

More info ►► https://agoradigital.art/agora-talks/past-talks/the-immersive-kind-xr-studio-future-art-ecosystems-lucy-wheeler/

What did we learn?

About @AgoraDigitalArt

Agora Digital Art is a certified social enterprise. We are one of the most dynamic creative hubs in London. We champion artists who have something to say. We bring diverse communities and artists together. With your generous support, we will build the best digital network.

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#TheImmersiveKind #LucyWheeler #AgoraDigitalArt #DigitalArt #NewMediaArt #WomenInDigitalArt #WomenInXR #WomenInVR #WomenInAR

‘An Imaginary Ruin” by Claudia Hart is still on view at Gazelli Art House. Experience the artwork in VR either in the gallery or on Mozilla Hubs.

In this episode, learn how the early collaboration, as a digital residency @Gazell.io, has led to this current exhibition.

More info ►► https://agoradigital.art/agora-talks/past-talks/digital-art-engaging-beyond-the-screen-mila-askarova-and-claudia-hart/

What did we learn?

How Claudia Hart uses her architecture and 3D animation skills to build a social immersive venue that displays her work in a new engaging manner.

About @AgoraDigitalArt

Agora Digital Art is a certified social enterprise. We are one of the most dynamic creative hubs in London. We champion artists who have something to say. We bring diverse communities and artists together. With your generous support, we will build the best digital network.

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#AgoraDigitalArt #MilaAskarova #GazelliArtHouse #ClaudiaHart #womenindigitalart #womeninvr #agoranetwork

Monica Vlad transitioned from engineering hydropower to another fluid: sound. In this talk, she shared how she overcame the fear of creating sound compositions and audiovisual live performances on stage. Her performances are based on pure intuition, following her inner creative voice.

More info ►► https://agoradigital.art/agora-talks/past-talks/the-sound-in-my-head-a-perfect-moment-for-women-in-digital-art-monica-vlad/ 

What did we learn?

About the artist⁣

Monica Vlad designs and develops new media installations and sound spaces. She uses new and old technology as an artistic medium of expression and as a medium for audiovisual communication. She explores their potential for spatial communication and art. She designs audio-video performances, media sculptures, installations that have an effect on their respective locations, giving them an identity — beyond their function and architecture. With her work, she likes to create new experiences and immerse the participant in the piece. The sound of her performances is mainly based on noise, ambient, experimental, from low to very high frequencies that one can barely hear; from minimal to glitch, from analogue to digital. Part of her artistic research is also the sound localisation attributes, surround – sound psychoacoustics, acousmatic and quadrophonic sound, sound image. The best way of participating as a viewer is to walk around through the room – as any new location has different characteristics – at the same time, regarding the sound but also the visuals. For her visuals, Monica creates new media of projection, coupled with the sound, which creates new immersive exposure to “reality”. For her light installations, she works with solid light that can easily be perceived. The viewer is invited to directly engage and experience with the sculptural characteristics of light. The installations carry performative and participatory qualities: while walking through space, as the viewer morphs into the landscape which disrupts the autonomy of the exhibition space and imposes its own spatial and temporal identity.⁣

Agora Digital Art is a certified social enterprise. We are one of the most dynamic creative hubs in London. We champion artists who have something to say. We bring diverse communities and artists together. With your generous support, we will build the best digital network.

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#MonicaVlad #WomenInDigitalArt #ArtandTechnology #AudioVisualArtist #WomenVJ #AgoraDigitalArt #DigitalArtNetwork #AgoraNetwork #NetworkingRitual #ArtistToWatch #NewNediaArt #SoundArt

The new podcast series Curator’s Radar starts with the interdisciplinary artist @SianFan.

Learn more about her performance in VR,  her interest in gaming, the importance of spirituality and how she incorporates natural elements in her work.

Discover also what’s hot with her current commission and her next projects in 2021.

This Curator’s Radar episode is hosted and curated by @AdrianStClair, Digital Curator @AgoraDigitalArt

About the Artist:

Sian Fan is an upcoming interdisciplinary artist working in London. She is a graduate of the Fine Art Masters at Central Saint Martins, where she was awarded the prestigious Mona Hatoum Scholarship and was nominated for the Nova Award. In 2014 she graduated from the University of Brighton's BA Performance and Visual Art Dance course, where she was awarded the prize for Outstanding Creative Achievement.

She has exhibited internationally with venues including Tate Modern, British Council, and the ICA, as well as producing work with Channel 4, the BBC and Google.

#SianFan #curatorsradar #AdrianStClair #AgoraDigitalArt #WomenInDigitalArt #WomenInVR

Lilia Ziamou shared insights from her art practice and discussed how digital representations of the body, and therefore digital identities, can be conceived and presented as a narrative.

More info ►►  https://agoradigital.art/agora-talks/past-talks/digital-bodies-as-narratives-lilia-ziamou/

What did we learn?

About @AgoraDigitalArt

Agora Digital Art is a certified social enterprise. We are one of the most dynamic creative hubs in London. We champion artists who have something to say. We bring diverse communities and artists together. With your generous support, we will build the best digital network.

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#LiliaZiamou #WomenInDigitalArt #ArtandTechnology #FashionandArt #AgoraDigitalArt #DigitalArtNetwork #AgoraNetwork #NetworkingRitual #ArtistToWatch #NewNediaArt

Patricia Siller, co-founder of Janet40, and Doreen A. Ríos, director of [ANTI]MATERIA, shared their experiences while working within the production, curation, and research of digital art in Mexico. They dived into the current state of affective networks in Mexico City as well as what it means to rethink the materialities of digital production while searching for ways of expanding its reach.

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#Antimateria #DoreenRios #Janet40 #PatriciaSiller #ArtSceneInMexico #AgoraDigitalArt #DigitalArtNetwork #Agoranetwork #DigitalArt #NewMediaArt

In this talk with #NataliyaVelykanova @Gate22Official, shared her vision of the future concept-Museum of Digital Art & Design in virtual reality.

Curator and Moderator: #AlexandraBusila

👍 Current Crowdfunding on #Ulule, support culture! It’s a win all or a lose all crowdfunding platform.

👉 https://www.ulule.com/gate22-introspexion/?lang=en (until 6 December 2020)

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What did we learn?

💥 In Exclusivity for #AgoraDigitalArt

Demo exhibition with the Argentinian artist, Bart Luevano Saavedra who invites you to his kinetic installation "The Déjà-vu Factory" - INTROSPEXION

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About @AgoraDigitalArt

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#Gate22 #introspexion #dejavu #BartLuevanoSaavedra #virtualreality #VR #virtualmuseum #digitalart 

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