Here you’ll find my work in virtual reality.
In 2008, I founded a project called the Virtual Art Initiative (VAI), which was a collaboration by 30+ artists from several countries, all of whom were content creators in virtual worlds. Besides organizing various exhibitions of virtual art online, VAI sponsored real-life exhibitions in galleries in Boston, Amsterdam, Milan, Southern France, and Florida’s Space Coast. My own virtual artwork has been exhibited in Canada, the United States, and Florence, Italy. I was also asked to write a chapter on virtual art for The Handbook of Virtuality, published by Oxford University Press in 2014 and edited by Mark Grimshaw. Below, you can find an except from that piece and samples from my own work as well as material by several artists from the in-world and real-life exhibitions by VAI.
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| VIRTUAL REALITY & METAVERSE BASED PROJECTS |
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| Art & Algorithms: Brief into text |
| A Second Genesis: Brief into text |
| Melifera: Brief into text |
| Saturn Subdued: Brief into text |
| Saturn’s Elegy: Brief into text |
| Through the Looking Glass: Philosophical Reflections on the Art of Virtual Worlds: by Gary Zabel — The Oxford Handbook of Virtuality, Edited by Mark Grimshaw — Print Publication Date: Feb 2014 Online Publication Date: Dec 2013 |
| The Six Dimensions of Virtual Art: A thesis brought to life via an international collective of artists and exhibitions demonstrating the Six Dimensions of Virtual Art consisting of: Immersion, Interaction, Ambiguity of Identity, Environmental Fluidity, Artificial Agency and Networked Collaboration. |
| Virtual Art Initiative (VAI): In 2008 I founded the Virtual Art Initiative (VAI) that provided work and exhibition spaces for 30+ artists from 14 countries and their virtual art in the Metaverse. |
Gaey Zabel Autoscopia Portrait : A U T O S C O P I A is a portrait image generator that was an interactive art installation in the virtual world of Second Life. |