Define VFXRio Lunapark Metaverso Experience: From a comic book page to Virtual Reality,a metaverso designed by Matteo Moriconi. This essay introduces the ideas and semiotics behind this virtual world. Moriconi calls on influences from Warhol to Roy Lichtenstein, from science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem to sci-fi film Inception, from Giorgio Vasari to Jean-Paul Sartre to explore the invenzione, the concept, behind his new metaverse, which is populated with artworks and structures that he created through the AI platform, Midjourney. Exhibition – I want to be a machine – A.I. W4rhol
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“We are called to be the architects of the future, not its victims.”
Buckminster Fuller
This three-part essay will take a look at the history of metaverses. Part One examines metaverses in the history of art and thought.Part Two looks at how popular culture pulled audiences from outside the entertainment box to deep inside it, as well as how and why science—particularly virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI). PART 3 looks at humanizing avatars, virtual versions of ourselves.
