Area for Virtual Art
LAUNCH 09–09–2020 The Area for Virtual Art is a place where people get together from all over the world to experience art, immerse themselves in new worlds and let go. The Area hosts exhibitions, discourse formats and social events and presents current digital artistic approaches, such as XR, interactive and AI based (art)works. We see the internet in its hyperlinked nature as the perfect exhibition and communication environment. Art is one of the driving forces of our society when it comes to designing and testing utopias. We want to make use of the potential that art has when it comes to bodily encounter. The opening exhibition of the Area for Virtual Art „A Virtual Utopia“ explores the question of how body-bound our communication is and how we can conquer the metaverse and use it for our needs as an artist community and as a society. The strongest motivations to create the Area for Virtual Art were to acquire new spaces in order to give art visibility and reach an international audience again. To achieve self-efficacy in …