Future Art
‘Metaverse Dream’: new book asks where virtual worlds will take us next
‘The metaverse has the potential to disrupt almost every single industry on the planet. It will affect both how we work and how we play,’ say Paul Dawalibi and Gregory Landegger, who take a deep-dive into the subject for Assouline’s new book, Metaverse Dream. ‘Over our lifetime, we will spend a decade or more plugged into a metaverse. But the most incredible part is that the metaverse will be an incredible equaliser. It will make mind-blowing experiences and social interaction available to the masses.’
Assouline boldly proposes that ‘the metaverse represents the future of travel’. Which begs the question of where you’d like it to take you. ‘Today, travel is no longer restricted to a physical, pre-existing destination,’ states the publisher. ‘With the metaverse, the possibilities are endless as new worlds are created every day.’
Read more: https://www.wallpaper.com/travel/metaverse-dream-book-assouline
“What Is Seen and Unseen: Mapping South Asian American Art in Chicago,” the unprecedented and profound survey at the South Asia Institute, comprises two exhibitions: “Shadows Dance Within the Archives,” an archival exhibition exploring over 125 years of South Asian art and cultural history in Chicago, and “Are Shadow Bodies Electric?,” a thematic exhibition featuring the work of eight contemporary artists. Curated by Shelly Bahl, the shows serve as the first to bring to light the underdocumented and subsequently underrepresented impact that South Asian art and artists have had—and continue to have—on Chicago’s rich cultural landscape.
“One of my dreams,” the artist Vera Molnar said in the early ’80s, “is to create a robot named Vera Molnar.” She imagined this robot would work every night and do exactly what she wanted. It would know everything she had ever created and, based on what she’d already produced, make a list of everything she hadn’t yet done.
Molnar never created this robot, though she did become known as the queen of computer-generated art. The current exhibition “Parler à l’oeil” (“Speak to the eye”) at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, on view through August 26th, shows how quickly she understood the artmaking possibilities new technologies offered at a time when few people did.
Established in 2022, ART FUTURES – Outstanding Graduates Awards in Asia is the first international art award of its kind in Asia dedicated to championing the creative practices of outstanding recent graduates in the field of visual arts and associated contemporary art practices.
The award aims to recognize and support emerging artists across Asia, providing them with a platform to showcase their talent and gain international recognition. The event is co-organized and co-presented by the Academy of Visual Arts and the School of Creative Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University, along with art-at-all and IAE.
Read more: https://www.adobomagazine.com/advertising-awards/art-futures-2023-awards-exhibition-discussion/
