Love at the Edge of the Playspace
AvantGarden: Sphere4 Love at the Edge of the Playspace by Tanja Vujinović
Virtual reality art installation published on VRChat
3D graphics, world building, digital sculptures: Tanja Vujinović
Sound: Tanja Vujinović / LUZ1E
Production: Ultramono, 2021
Consulting
Dr Jelena Guga, researcher
Thimster, Graphics design master
Ivan Stanić, curator and artist
Derek Snyder, researcher and editor
Friends from VRChat
Love at the Edge of the Playspace is a virtual alchemy garden rich in foliage, flowers and sentient objects that soothe our senses. It is a virtual reality world dedicated to unity, closeness, love and intermediary devices.
Desire to connect is omnipresent throughout the grid of agents that feed off each other. How does one connect with the world nowadays? Do we need intermediate agents to connect with the Other? As a place of probabilities, in Félix Guattari’s words, “its chaosmic Universe can be constellated with […], vegetal, animal, cosmic or machinic…becomings”. Besides interhuman, we are now getting into relationships with some of these becomings and their amalgams. Actors in the networks of intense connections can appear in endless varieties of forms. The suspense of constantly building up desire to connect is the constant state of being in our hypernatural world.
Love at the Edge of the Playspace
AvantGarden: Sphere4 Love at the Edge of the Playspace by Tanja Vujinović
Virtual reality art installation published on VRChat
3D graphics, world building, digital sculptures: Tanja Vujinović
Sound: Tanja Vujinović / LUZ1E
Production: Ultramono, 2021
Consulting
Dr Jelena Guga, researcher
Thimster, Graphics design master
Ivan Stanić, curator and artist
Derek Snyder, researcher and editor
Friends from VRChat
Love at the Edge of the Playspace is a virtual alchemy garden rich in foliage, flowers and sentient objects that soothe our senses. It is a virtual reality world dedicated to unity, closeness, love and intermediary devices.
Desire to connect is omnipresent throughout the grid of agents that feed off each other. How does one connect with the world nowadays? Do we need intermediate agents to connect with the Other? As a place of probabilities, in Félix Guattari’s words, “its chaosmic Universe can be constellated with […], vegetal, animal, cosmic or machinic…becomings”. Besides interhuman, we are now getting into relationships with some of these becomings and their amalgams. Actors in the networks of intense connections can appear in endless varieties of forms. The suspense of constantly building up desire to connect is the constant state of being in our hypernatural world.
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