"ON, Temperate Forest, Winter" (v1) by OPEN THIS END (trailer) from Cristina Garcia-Lasuen on Vimeo.
If you're in Madrid this Summer (and don't you wish you were), there's a major VR art installation which just opened up at Círculo de Bellas Artes, one of the city's major art centers: ON, Temperate Forest, Winter. (Trailer from a previous showing above.)
Presented by curator/art director Cristina Garcia-Lasuen, who also put together a collection of Second Life machinima at the World Expo in Shanghai back in the day, "Temperate Forest" is a highly detailed recreation of a real location:
"We have 3D-reproduced more than 120 square kilometers of the real forest," Christina tells me. "It is made on a REAL SCALE, so that the trees are 40 meters high, the river and the animals are all identical and of the same scale as reality." She calls it "Portal Art", which she describes as a new kind of art genre: "3D, VR, immersive, interactive, realistic, multi-sensory, of the world."
But what makes this art, as opposed to a real world simulation? More on that here soon. Until then, here's the Círculo de Bellas Artes listing.
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