Let us question the future of museums. What is the main purpose of it? What is the purpose of a museum in the 2020s? How are museums adapting to the changes of the digital age? 

2020: Interactive Virtual Art Collection is an interactive virtual art collection that aims to answer these questions. For us, an art museum is a space that brings curated artwork and it’s viewer together.  As Duchamp said in 1957,  “All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world(...)”. Art begins with the artist, yet it is not complete until it meets it’s spectator. It should be as virtual as it is physical; and interactive as possible.
 
2020: Interactive Virtual Art Collection is created by the joint participation of game developers, visual communication designers, architects and 3D artists under the roof of Mekan • Space. Interactive artworks are produced by examining Dada, Futurism, Pop Art and Readymade artworks and using 3D archives.

2020: Interactive Virtual Art Collection

Team: 
İpek Kuran Yıldırım
Zeynep Burcu Kaya Alpan
Ali İhsan Tokatlıoğlu
Selen Lun

Concept and Development: 
İpek Kuran Yıldırım
Zeynep Burcu Kaya Alpan

Artists:           

Memory Invaders: Ege Özyuvacı
Disintegrate: Esen Küçüktütüncü
OUTCRY: Elif Cerrahoğlu, Pınar Horozoğlu
Arzen: Yusuf Ulufer
Happiness: Luis Miguel Alves Fernandes 
Can't You See?: Naci Hakan Zehirlioğlu
Skin: Melike Tarakçı
Volumetric Song: Boğaçhan Bakır, Gözde Akyol
Price Tag: İpek Kuran Yıldırım, Rıza Yıldırım, Zeynep Burcu Kaya Alpan

Hardware: 

Oculus Rift S VR System, VR-Ready Computer.

Artworks were created partly at 2020: Interactive Art Workshops  at  VR1- Bahçeşehir University and Alt lab- Bilgi University. 

Thank you
Ahmetcan Alpan
Özde Karadağ
Kutsal Mustafaoğlu
İlbey Çağan
Harid Taşkın

2020: Interactive Virtual Art Collection

Co-creators: İpek Kuran and Zeynep Burcu Kaya 

Amnion VR is a sensational journey through your body, your mind and all the possibilities of your life. It is a connection of the past, future and the present; a deformation and a reformation of the space and time.

It’s an experience more than you see with your eyes. So feel and open all your senses. Touch, move, smell and listen. . . You are capable of sensing every single moment. Focus and dive into a universe in which you can do whatever you want.

​Amnion is the innermost membrane that encloses the embryo. It is the primal space in which we grow and connect with the outer world. It is the space in which we explore and interact.

​Amnion was organized as two workshops by Mekân • Space Team. Traces of the body movements were transformed into forms and spaces. Amnion VR is created as the end result of these workshops.

3D artist: Ali İhsan Tokatlıoğlu

Narrator and Writer: Selen Lun

Locomotion: Nikolaus Stromberg

Sound Artist: Kerem Akyüz 

Voiceover Recording: Emre Kaya, Çınar Çabuk [alt] 

Development Aid: Jonas Kgomo and Kutsal Mustafaoğlu

Videographer: Ahmetcan Alpan 

Many thanks to VR1 and BUG  Lab

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