Still Life VR artwork by Chiara Passa 2019-ongoing.
“Still life” analyses the processes of the nature by investigating the relation with it and what is represented in art nowadays as still life. The VR artwork puts in question what is really dead in nature and what is still alive in history of art, by speculating on landscapes, paintings and objects, and so creating through the virtual reality an object-oriented space formed by a vibrant still-life environment designed all around the spectators. The spectators wearing the vr headset (oculus rift and oculus quest) can discover hidden senses, interacting with wired objects and new spaces of perception. In fact, when touched, the still life transforms through homeomorphism, unfolding into other objects and meanings. “Still life” is an experimental project, which challenges physical place to render it vibrant and participatory. It is through audience experience that “Still life” addresses us to the paradox of the modern space-time condition, even more diluted between physical and liquid space. My “Still life” by investigating and analysing the ancient and fervid European Still Life art-practice, wants to keep alive its tradition across the magical ontology of the vr vision. In “Still life” I designed each piece to behave and move beyond its own functionality, according also to the Object Oriented Ontology philosophy.

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