The Delaware Art Museum leads the artistic movement with its newest exhibit, the seeing glass. This virtual reality experience allows art enthusiasts to let their senses take over.
Curator Margaret Winslow said she’s excited about the museum utilizing this new technology and to see how people react to this cutting-edge experience.
“Virtual reality, augmented reality, and gaming technology software, as well, because they can create a new space in which the viewer can be entirely immersed,” said Winslow. “[The artist] is playing with the physical location of our bodies.”
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Troy Richards and Knutt Hybinette developed the museum’s first virtual reality experience based on the Delaware Art Museum’s Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Collection of Pre-Raphaelite Art—specifically one painting.
“Dane Gabriel Rossetti’s La Bella Mono is a piece that does just that,” said Margaretta Frederick, Delaware Art Museum Curator. “The viewer is almost seamlessly standing in the same room with the three female figures and a room that is packed with lots of objects and rich colors.”
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During the experience viewers will be transformed into a lavish Victorian-era room, where as they move throughout the space, objects will become blurred and time speeds up, like, a piece of fruit that will transform from green to rotten.
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“Having this virtual piece here in the Pre-Raphaelite galleries is comparing it to what artists in the Pre-Raphaelite’s where doing a 100 years earlier,” said Frederick. “[Which] is to invite the audience into the Victorian artistic space.”
The Delaware Art Museum’s the seeing glassexhibit is open until January 14th and is located at 2301 Kentmere Parkway in Wilmington.
Source: WDEL