unveiling of ✦ AVGRDN_◉
Thank you to everyone who joined the unveiling of ✦ AVGRDN_◉ last night in VRChat. The feedback and presence of curious explorers made this new chapter of the AvantGarden series feel truly alive.
✦ AVGRDN_◉ is conceived as a virtual pavilion — part architecture, part organism. It unfolds as a nonlinear myth-scape populated by hybrid beings shaped through neural logic, synthetic memories, and fragments of sculptural traditions. The world is about digital matter becoming organism, sound becoming space, symbols dissolving into living forms.
For this iteration, I chose to reduce the overt psychedelic density so the nucleus of the work — the one-eyed organism at its core, and the ecosystem of synthetic mythologies that surround it — could emerge with more clarity. What remains is a soft-machine landscape of roots, mineral grids, and speculative interfaces, echoing natural structures while projecting into posthuman terrains. I am really happy with how it turned out, especially given the complexity of some of the objects. See you soon 🌀
Ψ ✦ AVGRDN_◉
✦ AVGRDN✶
biomorphing echoes shaped in 3D pigment, sound, and spectral light
Ψ ✦ AVGRDN_◉✶ - Virtual Pavilion Inauguration
22 August 2025 | 21:00 CET | VRChat
You are invited into the unveiling of AVGRDN_◉✶, the newest virtual pavilion in the AvantGarden series by artist Tanja Vujinovic.
This immersive audiovisual environment unfolds as a nonlinear myth-scape populated by hybrid digital beings—creatures shaped by neural logic, synthetic memories, and mythopoetic forms. They emerge within a soft-machine landscape of roots, mineral grids, and speculative interfaces, echoing sculptural traditions while projecting into posthuman terrains.
The opening celebration features extended DJ sets by Dentadsio and Tanja Vujinovic, including live experimental techno and material from the AvantGarden Soundscapes album.
Credits
Concept, modeling, executive production: Tanja Vujinovic
Studio Assistant: Cecilia Zeng
Produced by: Ultramono
Special thanks: VRChat community
To attend, download VRChat via Steam, create an account. Send a friend request to TanjaV or join the Ultramono VRChat group: https://vrc.group/ULTRAM.5641
Stay updated via www.tanjav.art — where you can also join the Discord community and support the ongoing evolution of the AvantGarden.
Ψ✦ AVGRDN_Δ✶
Observers, infiltrators, accidental spores.
Born from AvantGarden, this new work dives into morphogenetic myth and posthuman figuration.
These beings hover between glyph and ghost, myth and algorithm. Ritual apparitions generated through haunted computation.
⚙︎ Dream logic on speculative hardware
⟁ Protocols for becoming
∞ Subconscious of the machine
Ψ✦ AVGRDN_Δ✶: Digital Rites and Ghost Fields
This body of work arises from AvantGarden, a digital mythos populated by synthetic ecosystems, posthuman avatars, and speculative rituals.
Ψ✦ AVGRDN_Δ✶ unfolds as a morphogenetic terrain — a catalog of glitch-born entities shaped by intermedia memory, machine-learning hallucination, and ancestral specters. These are emergent beings—formed at the edge of signal loss and symbol, myth and neural architecture. Their anatomies blur between sculpted forms, pigment specters, and AI distortions. This series opens a space of contemplation where alienness becomes an interface—and identity splinters into new post-organic architectures.
Ultramono AvantGarden exhibitions
Ultramono AvantGarden exhibitions: The second edition of Digital on Stage project was a meaningful experience. Grateful to KID KIBLA, Kilowatt Festival, CUBE Non-Profit Organisation, Intercult, Cultuurconnect for organizing this ambitious platform. Thank you to everyone who visited my Proto-machines Lab virtual world and engaged with my lecture. I appreciated the conversations, questions, and reflections.
Next, I’ll be showing my work SynthPets at SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology, part of FILE 2025, from July 15 to September 7 at the FIESP Cultural Center, São Paulo.
Images/video: From the ongoing series: Calipso Operating System, 2025–ongoing.
