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23 February - 23 March 2023
#30
Virtual space
The world of the XXI century is decoupling and splitting into two alternative, yet coexisting strata: physical and virtual. Pandemic of smartphones, omnipresence of social networks in our mundane and political realities, buoyant alternatives in video game worlds and the utopian land of the metaverse – all of it pushes the “users” to gradually move or even escape to the soothing virtual meadows.
Isn’t the vision of a better world promised by virtuality just a reflection of the mundane in a broken smart mirror? Perhaps humanity is closing in on itself and moving towards a corporate-run technological dystopia, or rather glimmers with undiscovered utopian possibilities and connections of minds? What is the meaning and value of architecture in worlds without borders and conventional rules? Does the architect have and can say something in the creation of virtual spaces? Or maybe it is the electronic garden of a concept artist, level designer, worldbuilder, programmer or after all – artificial intelligence, into which it is too difficult for an architect to enter?
The 30th cycle of A_Pokalbiai talk series will look at the increasingly intertwined perspective of our bipolar world. During the run of five lectures various professionals will try to shift our understanding of the real and the virtual, to reveal the possibilities and dangers of the digital space and will encourage everyone in and around the field of architecture not to be afraid to innovate and join the virtual space.
The lecture series was extended with a virtual exhibition space – the National Gallery of Virtuality.
Important information. The event will be filmed and photographed. Videos and/or photographs taken during the event may be published and broadcast live on the Organiser’s social networks (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube), website, as well as other advertising or information dissemination media.
National Gallery of Virtuality
It is a free for all virtual exhibition which explores the possibilities of non-physical spaces and complements the lecture series. The gallery, created from the spaces of the real and virtual world scanned using the photogrammetry method practised by the artist Adomas Žudys, presents two topics examining virtuality and relating to the lecture series.
The first is a self-reflective exhibition, in which the five lectures of the “Virtual space“ lecture series are visualized and presented in the format of video recordings with the help of various spatial models scanned by A. Žudys.
The second is an exhibition of the works of the participants of the “VR talks“ competition for the creation of 3D narrative spaces organized by “Aikštėje“.
National Gallery of Virtuality can be visited at any time through this link – https://tinyurl.com/nvgalerija (takes longer to load)
Talks will take place at the National Art Gallery (NDG), Konstitucijos pr. 22, Vilnius.
The talks will start at 7.00 p.m. and will be held in Lithuanian or in English.
The entrance is free of charge.