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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nNiio has proudly hosted a collaboration with artists and NYU professors Carla Gannis<\/strong><\/a> and Snow Yunxue Fu<\/strong><\/a> consisting of a group artcast featuring recent works by artists and NYU students Ren Ciarrocchi, Jessica Dai, Marina Roos Guthmann, James Lee, Tinrey Wang, Yuaqing She & June Bee, Shentong Yu<\/strong>, and Jerry Zhao<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Titled Phantasmaverse<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, <\/em>the exhibition addresses the potential of simulation technologies such as CGI animation and VR environments in storytelling and the creation of meaningful artworks that explore new forms of engaging with viewers and reflecting on our digital society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We asked the professors and co-curators Carla Gannis<\/strong> and Snow Yunxue Fu<\/strong> about the exhibition’s curatorial process and their views on the use of digital technologies for exhibiting artworks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Snow, you created Daughter ICE as an avatar that connects you with your mother and your family. Which possibilities do you see in metaverse spaces and avatars to build human relationships and experiences of presence with a distant audience?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I approach the Metaverse space sometimes to \u201cmake dreams come true\u201d. Daughter ICE<\/a><\/strong> is a long-term project that in a way materializes my long-distance relationship with my mother and family members in China, and the Metaverse home of Daughter ICE is this visualized space of a dream house, inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright\u2019s Fallingwater house, where nature and architecture harmoniously come together. This digital space also functions as a place where one can gather together with other people, like with my family at a distance. In Daughter ICE\u2019s home, we can have pop-up shows, we can attend a live opening in the virtual space no matter which counties we are physically located in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Snow Yunxue Fu<\/a> <\/strong>works with imaging technologies, such as 3D Simulation, AR, XR, and the Metaverse in interdisciplinary explorations into the universal aesthetic and definitive nature of the techno sublime.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Carla, as a \u201cdigital fl\u00e2neuse,\u201d you collect fragments of the real world to build immersive digital compositions. What is your experience creating metaverse spaces?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I have been working for over five years on a large multi-reality project entitled wwwunderkammer<\/em>, that explores building a feminist, post-human, decolonized wunderkammer for the Web3 age. It launched as both an XR and physical reality solo exhibition in March of 2020 at Telematic Media Arts produced by me and my avatar C.A.R.L.A. G.A.N.<\/a> <\/strong>(Crossplatform Avatar for Recursive Life Action Generative Adversarial Network). Currently, an evolution of this project, as video, physical printwork and metaverse experience is on view again at Telematic Media Arts, and it will be premiering at The Halsey Institute of Art in May. I have been collecting physical objects and 3D virtual models from across the global internet that represent topics that feel both curious and urgent to me: climate change and its impact on emerging and endangered species; historical and current political frameworks; networked culture and digital semiotics; decolonization and global pluralism; humor as salve and feminist salvation. In addition to the rooms I have built addressing these topics, I have built wwwunderchambers to date for 5 different experts on the topics of absurdity, decolonization in design, destigmatization of attitudes around sex and comfort in tech, digital accessibility, and preservation of digital art. There are currently 15 experiences that make up the metaverse aspect of the wwwunderkammer<\/strong><\/a> that you can visit online. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2020, I co-curated with Clark Buckner The Archive to Come<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, a 57 artist exhibition, (that included Snow!) as an extension of the wwwunderkammer. \u2013 both on-line and in the gallery \u2013 of short time-based works that address questions of loss, memorialization, crisis, and re-invention, through the lens of contemporary networked culture and digital media. I built the social VR\/metaverse gallery, (a giant splash in a sea of water) to house all of the amazing works in this exhibition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Two physical catalogs have recently been published by Telematic Media Arts <\/a><\/strong>documenting these metaverse projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/dkrxqpdgyal83.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/13070832\/Daughter-ICE-Metaverse-web-1024x606.jpg\")
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