Archive
You can find the documentation of the previous activities of Art in the Age of the Metaverse here
Workshops
Writer Taylor Le Melle produced a text as a form of documentation for the workshop The Modules by Black Swan which took place at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten on Friday 10 March 2023.
Videos
Discover the talks and presentations of the Art in the Age of the Metaverse Conference Day.
Life after BOB: The Chalice Study with Ian Cheng
#1 | Into the Metaverse
#2 | Solid State of the Art & #3 | Sculpted from Code
#4 | Virtual Memory and Physical Storage
#5 | Worlds Dives
#6 | Outside the Metaverse
Workshops
On 10 March a series of workshops took place at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten:
– The Modules by Black Swan
– Dancing in the metaverse – Make-your-own-avatar by The Hmm (Babusi Nyoni & Margarita Osipian)
– Life After BOB – worldbuilding for the metaverse by Shuruq Tramontini, Veronica So & Ivaylo Getov
All photos by Maarten Nauw.
Life after BOB: The Chalice Study with Ian Cheng
The conference opened on Friday 10 March at De Balie with the Dutch premiere of Ian Cheng’s Life after BOB: The Chalice Study, followed by a conversation with the artist and Leonardo Dellanoce.
All photo’s by Maarten Nauw.
Conference Day: Art in the Age of the Metaverse
Day 2 opened at De Balie with a keynote by Micaela Mantegna and ended with a panel discussion with Marina Otero, Primavera de Filippi, Barbara Cueto & Margarita Osipian. Full programme here.
All photos by Maarten Nauw.
Showcase
The Art in the Age of the Metaverse showcase ran parallel to the conference with artworks by artists who were speaking during the programme: Morehshin Allahyari, Kévin Bray, Ian Cheng, Ali Eslami, Moving Castles (Arthur Roeing Baer+GVN), Katja Novitskova, Babusi Nyoni, Shuruq Tramontini & Peter Wu+.
From big-scale live simulations in Unity to poetic renditions of AI image datasets, the showcase explored the metaverse as a shared space at the nexus of the virtual and the physical.
All photo’s by Maarten Nauw.