METAVERSE IS EMPTY

METAVERSE IS EMPTY

November 11–14, 12–5 PM, Art and Media Lab

Opening Event (Screening & Artist Talk): November 11, 6 PM, Screening Room (222)

Closing Ceremony: November 14, 2:30 PM, Art and Media Lab

Participating artists: Bojana Babic, Gabriel Menotti, Jenn Norton, Sam Sunwoo, Sojung Bahng, and the Magic Circles cohort (DC Spensley, Debbie Ding, Jan Berger, Hortense Boulais-Ifrêne)

A whole lot has been said about the metaverse; so much so that it became a perfect empty signifier: a capacious, seemingly multiple concept, lacking inherent meaning and substance, ever shaped by technological, cultural, and economic speculation. But is it really so? METAVERSE IS EMPTY calls this idea into question by looking past all claims about the metaverse that could be and focusing instead on metaverses that actually have been. The works this exhibition brings together propose modest relationships between virtual spaces and physical bodies (and vice-versa). In their specificity, they don’t aspire to inaugurate the next Era in Telecommunications Technology. Conversely, they demonstrate that, beyond the SiliconValleyesque spectacle, strange potentials have always been brewing within new media.

For more details: https://www.research-practice.com/single-post/metaverse-is-empty