Claire Fleming Staples: 'New Virtual Worlds' :Creating 3D spaces with New Art City

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

Registration is now OPEN for our workshop hosted by Claire Fleming Stapes (CHI) // “New Virtual Worlds” Virtual Reality with New Art City at MANA in Pilsen!

Welcome to all levels of computer users!! Learn how to build a virtual 3-D world using the online platform New Art City. Accessible and easy to use, the possibilities range from online exhibitions of traditional work to fantastical game-like environments with spatial sound and portals to take you from one space to the next. We will use the Polycam 3D scan library as well as making some of our own scans using our phones, and learn some Basic Blender skills to edit and animate them. Each participant will make their own world and we will collaborate on a shared space that portals to all of them.

ARTIST BIO

Claire Fleming is a queer multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of performance, politics, installation and new media. Throughout their multi-faceted practice they are exploring embodiment as a tool for collective liberation. They are one half of the tekno duo 404 NOT FOUND and a long term member of a network of mycelial underground creative communities in the United States, in which care and organizing are an important part of their practice. They currently work and reside in Chicago, Illinois, where they are faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.