Year
2022
Type
Art Interactive Exhibtion
Role
VR Developer
Technology
Unity 3D, Oculus VR, Photogrammetry, Art Painting, Poetry, Music Piece
MetaEternity
Can the metaverse offer an afterlife?
Collaboratively infuse museum visitors' imaginations, drawings, and crafts with a real-time VR digital space to create a shared, indigenous human afterlife environment that's coherent with everyone's consciousness and interactions in the physical world.
"Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."
- Vladimir Nabokov
As the metaverse unfolds, it offers new methods to connect and exist outside of our physical selves. What implications might this have after our physical bodies pass away? How do we make sense of our social and material relationships in physical space vs. virtual space? Is there some form of continued existence we can embed in the metaverse? If VR offers us a glimpse into these worlds, how can we move away from the insularity and single-player mode that it usually affords?
Gallery-goers were invited to respond to the above questions by drawing and writing, which was then uploaded to a collaborative virtual environment, resulting in an act of generative meaning-making and collective conjuring. The aim of the project is to explore, through iterative and collaborative performance, emergent understandings of virtual embodiment, consciousness, and the digital afterlife.
MetaEternity was created by T Braun, Ayodamola Okunseinde, June Bee & Zelong Li
With text, cello, and reading by germ lynn
"Meta-Eternity" is a collaborative exhibition that explores the intersection of virtual and physical existence, questioning the implications of life beyond the body. Artists and participants engage with AI-generated imagery, performance, and interactive modular controllers to collectively build a user-driven virtual world. Through drawing, writing, and crafting, visitors contribute to an evolving, generative space, examining themes of embodiment, consciousness, and the digital afterlife. The exhibition invites reflection on how virtual reality can transcend its usual limitations, fostering new methods of connection and collaborative meaning-making.
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