*Get them before Google discontinues them! Google Blocks, Google Poly, Google Tiltbrush, etc   https://www.museumor.com/blog/beginners-guide-to-vr-art-creation-apps   “From sculpting to animating, there’s a range of software for creating in VR. However, with how fast the industry changes, figuring out where to start can be daunting, so we compiled this list.   “Note that the type of […]

https://www.ooelkg.at/en/exhibition/exibitions/detail/proof-of-art-eine-kurze-geschickte-der-nfts-von-den-anfaengen-der-digitalen-kunst-bis-zum-metaverse.html PROOF OF ART. A BRIEF HISTORY OF NFTS, FROM THE BEGINNINGS OF DIGITAL ART TO THE METAVERSE FRANCISCO CAROLINUM LINZ / 11. JUN. 2021 TILL 15. SEP. 2021 SONDERAUSSTELLUNG Duration of the exhibition: 10 June – 15 September 2021 Francisco Carolinum, Linz Francisco Carolinum presents PROOF OF ART, the world’s first museum exhibition on the […]

*The Museo Nazionale del Cinema, which abounds in historic media oddities, has decided to add some virtual reality to its attractions.      

A “Wunderkammer” or “wonder chamber” was a closet full of wondrous  oddities.  They flourished four hundred years ago.   When scientific disciplines matured,  and taxonomies improved, then “wonder chambers” went out of intellectual style.  But today “wonder chambers”  make sense for displays of “emerging media” or “transmedia” or “new media,” when lines of definition don’t […]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_curiosities       https://agoradigital.art/blog-carla-gannis-cabinet-of-curiosities/       https://carlagannis.com

*It’s a press-release via the SPECTRE list.   Greetings! Latest edition of Pixelache Festival in Helsinki starts in a few days, welcome to follow week-long online radio stream & selected AV streams from afar. apologies in advance for x-posting. PIXELACHE HELSINKI 2021: #BURN____ Press release https://burn.pixelache.ac/press Soon 20-year-old Pixelache Helsinki, a transdisciplinary platform for emerging […]

*It’s a press release from the “Serpentine R&D Platform.”   Dear Friends, Just like many, we have been following the fast-paced evolution of the NFT space, and so on Monday 7th of June at 8.30pm BST/3.30pm EDT, Serpentine’s Legal Lab is organising an event in partnership with Rhizome — From Black Boxes to Open Systems: NFTs and the Law to […]

*This is a well-designed metaverse gallery.  The artist built it himself, although it’s hosted in the Cryptovoxels metaverse, as indeed many NFT galleries are.   *Along with a detailed story about his new NFT artwork (which is currently being auctioned  in the “Natively Digital” show at Sotheby’s) Matt Kane takes the further trouble to display […]

“As Sotheby’s auction house remarks: ‘Natively Digital: A Curated NFT Sale’ is NOW open for bidding! And tomorrow the multi-venue global exhibition in partnership with Samsung and SamsungUS will open in our galleries in NYC, London, Hong Kong and across the metaverse.”   *I recommend a look at these artworks, not because you ought to hasten to […]

It’s been a rough time for art galleries, since sharing infected air with one’s fellow art enthusiasts can be fatal.   However, this situation has been a major boost to virtual 3D environments.  Although online “metaverses” by no means new, they crash less nowadays, they’re better-designed and more entertaining, and  they have some profitable business […]