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Ugo Dossi & Stefan Göppel - GoVar
Ugo Dossi about XR as a means of artistic expression:
Not only are the expressive possibilities of XR new and fascinating, but also the process by which XR-Art is created. For centuries, a painter would stand alone in front of the easel with a brush in his hand and paint on the canvas. Creating XR art, to the contrary, is a complex team effort between the artist and numerous highly qualified developers. The dynamic character of XR implies that they are extremely curious, creative and often also quite young. It is not only their incredible technical skills, but also their personalities and ideas that shape the final artwork. Hence, the boundary between concept and execution is blurred in XR art.
Stefan Göppel and govar:
Stefan Göppel is an internationally active pioneer, trailblazer, visionary, developer and operator of extended reality applications. He has been working in this field for 14 years with the highest level of expertise and the broadest network in the global scene. His company govar based in Munich, was founded in 2021 and expresses this in its name: GO Virtual Augmented Reality. Many of his developments have focussed on high-tech applications and have been awarded the German Digital Award, the Red Dot Design Award and the Grimme Online Award, among others. He entered the field of art in 2023 with Ugo Dossi and the spectacular installation Meta-Alchimya at the Reiss-Engelhorn Museum, which was honoured with the international Next Reality Award.
Artwork
3rd Eye - find your fate
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3rd Eye - find your fate is an XR world model. A double world model with an outside world and an inside world. The possibilities of extended reality are brought into play here with the utmost accuracy in order to depict a reality that reveals itself to be supermaterial at its core.
World models are tools that visualise connections that are ungraspable on the original scale. Situations can be created in the model that cannot be accessed in so-called physical reality. They can also be used to predict effects and consequences that are equivalent to a glimpse into the future. They open a third eye.
The external appearance of 3rd Eye is a world model made of transparent spheres. A room-filling virtual sculpture that celebrates the omnipresence of the pi factor with its configuration. The sculpture is made visible with an XR headset.
You can enter the interior of the virtual sculpture through the virtual outer shapes. This opens up a boundless, starry night sky all around, an astronomical universe in the centre of which the people entering seem to float. They are surrounded by whirling signs that evoke strong associative meanings. When called upon, they approach and combine to form a personal oracle for the visitor. A voice in the headset interactively instructs the steps of the procedure. Visitors can reach for the oracle signs and return to the familiar world with them from outer space and the world model. With 3rd Eye, they have perceived a world structure and glimpsed aspects of their own future.
