MUD VERSE

MUD Wisper Edition

XR Lobby

Media Under Dystopia Wisper Edition: A Public XR Metaverse

As our interactions with machines evolve, exploring and creating new boundaries around immersive interfaces becomes critical. The Media Under Dystopia WISPer edition is a lab hands-on exhibition exploring how the internet and XR can become tools to democratize art creation, access, co-creation, and critical media expansion. With the MUD Foundation exhibition Media Under Dystopia Wisper edition, we are prototyping the future of our current program iterations with local, national, and international communities. "WISPer" is the acronym of "WISP," Wireless Internet Service Provider, and the word ‘whisper’. This exhibition is launching our WISPer program, creating a WISP network around the MUD Foundation venue (and beyond), where the local, national, and international communities can access the MUD Foundation exhibition program and community partners initiatives. At the same time, the audiences have art access and art creation tools through our metaverse XR platform: the MUD Verse.

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A scene in the metaverse where you can see different portals that lead to other scenes

LEO CASTANEDA

Game viewing gardens

A garden of sculptural machines and furniture for viewing a video game inspired by fusions of futuristic industrial design, pre-Columbian sculpture, architectural renderings and video game conference aesthetics. Game Viewing Gardens brings viewers into a space partially furniture showroom and partially mythological location where beings, technology and spaces are interrelated from the neo-primordial gaming universe of Castañeda’s “Levels & Bosses: Part One”. Sculpturally reinterpreting “Let’s play” scenarios where a person showcases a walk-through of a game either online or in a stage, this work imagines the scenarios as virtual performance. Game Viewing Gardens is available on the MUD verse.

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LANS KING

Brainwave Generated Sculpture Prototype

Lans King has an NFC microchip implanted in his left hand. His "artist-self" is registered on the blockchain, and it is linked to all of his artworks. Using a variety of wearable devices, Lans collects physical, emotional, and cerebral biodata. His digital artworks are often derived or generated from that data. This virtual sculpture was generated by the artist using a brain-computer interface device that captures brain activity data. The data is fed into a generative algorithm and parametric software; each channel is mapped to a specific parameter. The software transforms an initial geometry (such as a sphere) into a variety of new forms that are unique and rare. Through this process, thoughts become forms. This specific work was generated by Lans's brainwave data as he focused his thoughts on the word "tomorrow." This work is a prototype for a performance/generative artworks called The Cyborg Manifesto. In 2024, Lans King will tour this series of performances during which he will generate virtual sculptures in real-time while wearing his brain-computer interface device. For this performance, he will spend 24 hours in a glass pod, connected to a computer running a generative algorithm. These digital sculptures will then be output as physical forms.

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A still image of a scene in the metaverse, showing a gray sculpture with its QR code and label

MUD 3.0

Silicon Beach

Media Under Dystopia 3.0: WASD

The new edition of Media Under Dystopia 3.0: WASD displays artworks created by visual artists using the internet as a creative medium. Presenting tech-centered pieces that deconstruct our digital environment and culture and at the same time exploring the open metaverse as a place for creation within artistic practices.

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A still image of the Silicon Beach scene in the metaverse, showing different portals to other scenes

ALBA TRIANA

Microverse (work in progress)

Microverse delves into the vibrational essence of the natural world. The instrument sounds without being touched, and the waves it emits are seen in space. Visitors can navigate this otherwise imperceptible reality thanks to a virtual reality experience.

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A red wave on a black background and with its red reflection on the floor, still image of the Microverse scene in the metaverse

VUK COSIC

Starstruck

In this artwork, the intersection of digital and cultural histories is explored through the research and reimagining of “card stunts” used in various historical contexts where individuals become only a pixel and are surrogates to the collective inertia.

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VLADAN JOLER

New Extractivism

New Extractivism explores the concept of a new form of extractivism in the stack behind contemporary technological systems creating a blueprint of a machine-like superstructure: a super allegory.

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ANTONIO MENDEZ

Augmented Drag Reality

By utilizing religious iconography from the artist’s upbringing and fusing it with contemporary queer imagery, viewers will witness an apparition that will protect and unite all who experience it.

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A depiction of a virgin in drag floating in an open sea, XR metaverse scene for the Dragvatar piece

RAFAEL RODRIGUEZ GARCIGA

Interfacing Actuality

Interfacing Actuality has taken the notion of interfaces as a point of entry for enacting a shift currently taking place in our reality, which is demonstrated by the phenomenon of the metaverse. This shift I have termed the prototyping of actuality. Interfacing actuality refers to the metaverse as the technical system by which the actual becomes an interface.

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A picture of the Interfacing Actuality metaverse scene showing 3 amorphous objects floating in a white space, depicting material samples.

MUD 2.0

Digital Twin

XRHub Main

A virtual twin of XRhub, the MUD Foundation XR Lab, and gallery space based in Little Haiti, Miami, Florida, US.

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A still of a metaverse scene that depicts the XRHub lab, the main room with all the portals that take to other scenes made for the Media Under Dystopia 2.0 exhibition

LEO CASTANEDA

Intensity Testing

In a virtual environment, a set of drone-like beings analyze and manipulate an organic mass-like entity. Testing modes of interaction through varying intensities of light and touch, the drones train to interact with a section of a sentient world whose material properties are uncertain, shifting between liquid, solid, and gas states. Drawings relating to the process and environment accompany a wallpaper that serves as a simulated U.I. for future or alternate world technology where landscapes, living beings and machines are interchangeable and interconnected. Images of perhaps an inventory or interface around or inside the entities. A micro-scene from the expanded video-game experience Levels & Bosses.

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A still image of a mass-like entity with a portal to the XRHub scene in the background

YUCEF MERHI

We are being watched

We Are Being Watched is a computer-generated work comprising 4 screens and a live feed projection. Each screen displays one word of the aforementioned title, moving vertically on the screen, glitching like damaged VHS tapes or old TV reception. The projection shows a glitched live feed of the audience over the glass doors of the exhibition space, enabling people outside to see what is happening inside. The work interrogates the classic surveillance slogan We Are Being Watched by reframing the YOU as WE. This semantic alteration places the awareness in the people who are being watched while diminishing the power of the invisible watcher, the Orwellian Big Brother, the all-seeing eye of a totalitarian police state. In the 'we' there is a communal experience that empowers the surveilled targets, providing a sense of inclusion rather than fear and paranoia.

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JOSE HERNANDEZ

Trinity Metaverse

A music composition takes place in a virtual reality space, where the spectator - user - will be able to move around it, altering the music depending on where they are within the space. The work features video as well, this being part of the musical 'narrative'.

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An image of a scene in the metaverse that shows 3 walls and two rooms, in the walls you can see portals for the other metaverse rooms

RODOLFO PERAZA

Pilgram: Naked Link 3.0

Pilgram: Naked Link 3.0 is the continuous process of a conceptual work that explores the boundaries between data visualization and art made from data collection, creating a link between scientific InfoVis & data sublimation. Pilgram 1.0, the first iteration, was made in 2015 and opened a hotspot in Havana. The 2.0 iteration showed the invisible structures that tie the U.S. (Miami) and Cuba, monitoring and analyzing the packet data traffic. The 3.0 naked links iteration will be a search for the possible changes (or not) of communication infrastructure since the 2.0 research. For the 3.0 iteration, we will display (in real-time) how the flow of communication between the two cities and the two countries is taking place nowadays. Pilgram: Naked Link 3.0 will visualize on real-time XR interfaces (extended realities) the links and infrastructure between the two countries that, in other cases, wouldn't be visible to the naked eye.

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#FilmGate XR portal

#DREAM CITY

#Machay XR Metaverse

FilmGate XR Portal

FilmGate XR Portal

Stiltsville

Seeming to float above Miami’s Biscayne Bay shallow seagrass beds, Stiltsville has a colorful history that dates back to the 1930s, when “Crawfish Eddie Walker” built the first shack on stilts above the water. Told in the style of a time travelling journal, with puzzles solved, games played, images captured and clues discovered, the Oculus Quest experience, will guide us through the houses, their history, their underwater sea life colonies and introduce us to their colorful caretakers.

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A still image of a scene in the metaverse. It shows a giant pink flamingo inside a Miami beach, and a view of some skyscrapers from a boat on the same beach

DREAM CITY

XR WORLD

Dream City is looking for Sponsorship and Grants

A 3D immersive world made from young people’s visions for a more sustainable and socially responsible future and we need to build it! Dream City will come to life using immersive technologies (WebXR, AR, VR, MR) and is available on phones, PC, and headset to provide experiences that extend human perception and interactions between the real and digital worlds.

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Machay XR Metaverse

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Machay XR Metaverse

Led by the M4 team in collaboration with the MUD Foundation, the Manchay Project is a transformative initiative for the San Francisco de Asís School in Manchay. Addressing educational gaps in literacy and math, it introduces the metaverse as an avant-garde learning tool. Over three years, the initiative will establish a Wi-Fi-equipped garden library, debut a metaverse learning platform, and ensure the best utilization of resources. This effort is set to pioneer a benchmark for educational strategies in developing areas.

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A still image of a scene in the metaverse, it shows two prefabricated classrooms and portals leading to these classrooms' scenes

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Upcoming

XRCamp at De La Cruz Collection, Miami, Florida, US. 2018_Girls

nov 28th 2022 4:00PM-aug 31ST 2023 3:00 PM

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