Virginia Bianchi Gallery presented Warped Passages, an augmented reality exhibition hosted in the outdoor spaces of the DumBO area in via Casarini, Bologna in summer 2021. With the aim of bringing more attention to digital art and the practice of artists who use the virtual as essential component of their works, Warped Passages proposes the virtual exploration of six works by the artists Martina Menegon, Lauren Moffatt, Rory Scott, Laura Shepherd, Alexis Zerafa and Alice Yuan Zhang.
'The exhibition is an opportunity to get in touch with the digital artistic dimension, still too neglected by Italian cultural institutions: in Warped Passages, smartphones become interfaces for the use of works of art which, lost their sublime and precious qualities, acquire interactive characteristics and invite to an active and individual exploration. Smartphones become, thus, doors to the parallel dimensions created by the artists; small windows that transport visitors to a different perception of reality.'
Flowerpop develops the series of augmented reality hypnotic flowers created for CADAF, this time using multiple time-sequenced instances to add depth and volume in this highly constrained form of 3D visualisation and experience. This effect was later selected and showcased by Instagram Spark as one of the top ten effects of 2021.
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