Virtual Art House open for public June 1st 2025

Echoes of Dystopia reflects the decaying soul of the internet—a seductive mirror of our descent into dopamine-fueled escapism. Appearing as an angelic, biomechanical being, the sculpture moves in a hypnotic dance, blurring the line between organic life and artificial simulation. This piece is a rendered video from a real-time audio-reactive visualizer.

(Modelled with Blender, Animated in Unreal Engine as a real-time audio-reactive visualizer.)

carmillasumantry.com

”Space Aqua Utopia” 2025 is a new video series exploring futuristic, utopian landscapes where nature and technology merge. Created using 3D microscopic imagery of insects, tardigrades, and snakes captured at the Oulu Biocenter, the project imagines hybrid environments that echo the speculative world  Using the scientific software Imaris—a powerful tool for 3D and 4D visualization and analysis of microscopic data—I transformed biological structures into surreal digital terrains. These otherworldly ecosystems invite viewers to reflect on biodiversity, interspecies coexistence, and the aesthetic potential of scientific data.  

(Videos with sound)

www.christelle-mas.com

Batang Buo is a narrative about the homeland and the connection between memory and connection. In the era of technology, memory became faded and somehow artificial. 

This series utilizes hyper-reality filters and 3D sculpting of the photographs, providing a graphic testament to the prominent role technology plays in our lives, to the point where it morphs our perception of the world around us. The juxtaposition of the unaltered landscape with layers of artificiality underscores our increasing dependence on digital technology.

(Digital collage and image manipulation, Audio poetry with original narration)

www.ekosaputra.it

How HI-GH is the galaxy anyway?

Can things exist physically and digitally in multiple positions of the reality spectrum at once? The answer to both is yes.

https://flyar.fi/high-af for a web and mobile AR-version. 

(Physical sculpture by multidisciplinary artist Sheikki, brought into digital life by flyAR Augmented Reality Studio. Manually modeled, textured, rigged and animated based on reference imagery and photogrammetry. Format: fbx.)

www.flyar.fi

Tri-eyed, Sun and Moon in palms, watching the three realms.

(Custom Unity based production)

keyartist.wixsite.com/keya

”HYENAZ: ENTANGLEMENT” is a VR experience that invites participants to explore their own entanglements with objects, landscapes, and extractive processes, with HYENAZ as their guide. In a fantastical environment—immersed in soundscapes and textures recorded through HYENAZ’s slow-movement research project in sites of environmental extraction—objects reveal their animacy, and participants are invited to engage in speculative storytelling to deepen their understanding of interrelationality.

(Multichannel spatial audio, series of videos, interactive elements)

www.hyenaz.com

What is the truth beyond the spectacle? “The Last Broadcast” is an interactive, text-based narrative that explores propaganda, myth-making, and the role of the metaverse in both.

(Branching narrative built on Inklewriter software.)

www.Jamie-McGhee.com

I studied design between 2007 and 2015 at various institutions and created dozens of different concepts, products, and artworks. From these school projects, I have several 3D files left, filling up my hard drives. 

By combining my old 3D files, I have created various characters called “Recycled 3D Monsters” that wander through the spaces of the Virtual Art House. Each character has been created based on the available materials, reflecting the moods of the moments they were made.

(3D illustrations)

Semiotics of spacelessness by Kathryn Carter orients us in our imaginations as we chart the synthesised terrain of the Virtual Art House. Her words, by virtue of their mortality, invite observers to expand the incubation of their own ideas and to return to the corporeality of their physical vessel as they traverse the digital realm. With poetry, we may transform the phantom of the virtual with palpable expression. Intrigued by the nascent semiology of intangible worlds, Carter presents thirty-three poems created as the chrysalises from which the reader’s own wings may emerge. What becomes of embodied humans who are disembodied within virtual realities? Your words will conjure the way.

(Words) 

www.kathryn-carter.com

Goldfish robot in bamboo sea is an immersive audiovisual experience that questions the ecology of life and non-life in the society of digital technology, the last nostalgia before entering the metaverse. The audience will transform into a robot goldfish, carried by the music of the Chinese harp Guzheng, and will swim in the sea of bamboo generated from ancient Chinese Shanshui drawings by AI deepth recognition. Yellow Wasabi will play Guzheng with an atypical sound treatment in MAX/Msp, distorting the timbral and rhythmic structure of the immersive sound continuum. The audience will promenade in this virtual garden and will feel the traditional esthetic of one step on view.

(Unity for computer project)

https://yellowwasabi.net

ANIMATOR – LIVE PERFORMANCE
Animator showcases how much life and personality is radiating even from the simplest signal of existence – a moving dot that leaves a trace. What happens when a dot meets another? 

(performance)

ANIMATOR – THE TOOL
Life is motion. You will never stop moving as long as you breathe. Animator – The Tool calls you to explore the simplest signal of existence and become the animator yourself! 

(interactive play)

https://www.instagram.com/springplay_studio/

9000 IN METAVERSE is a multidisciplinary art exhibition by photographer-filmmaker-architect Vesa Loikas & Choreographer-dancer Maria Nurmela.

9000 IN METAVERSE explores the changing meanings of humanism within a posthumanist framework.

(Three-dimensional sculptures, video with soundtrack, fine art photography and text)

https://fainomenon.net/

The Flipping Room: Micro-Stories Unfold
In this immersive virtual exhibition, Canadian artist Marie Samuel Levasseur presents over a hundred zines and small artbooks – many of their own, a hundred created through collective workshops, a zine from the Fanzinothèque collection (France) and a selection by fellow artists from Canada, the U.S., Spain, and Germany.

Each zine is revealed through a quiet, intimate gesture: the turning of its pages, one by one, for someone else to see. Inspired by the artist’s experience as a caregiver, this simple act becomes a form of care – a way to share stories gently, attentively.

Through these small books and the many hands that helped create them, The Flipping Room offers a space of connection, reflection, and quiet resistance, where micro-narratives unfold across borders and screens.

(A virtual video installation composed of multiple screens, each triggering a video of zines being flipped page by page.)

Nature reclaims the digital world. Using their catalogue of textures and forms collected from fieldwork in temperate Celtic rainforests of Wales and tropical montane cloud forests of the Philippines, Curtis and Mica bring pockets of mossy forests and fern-laden woodlands to the VAH Building.
 
(3D objects of forest elements to be spread out in spaces within the Virtual Art House building)
 

https://sunny-loving-forest.glitch.me

The UFÅ VAH 2025 campaign humorously proposes making Turku the UFO capital of the world. This retro-futuristic artwork blends sci-fi aesthetics with contemporary digital illustrations, reimagining a UFO visitation as a symbolic encounter with home, locality, and imagination.

(Various digital formats, workshops, AI-integrations)

Artist

In the project Concert, the textures of natural spaces and the sounds of the environment invite viewers to step into two natural locations from different parts of the world and inhabit them for a while. Direct observation and documentation are crucial parts of my process, and I use audio field recordings and 3D scanning of fragments of the landscape to document the unique physical qualities of places. 

The VR installations recreates two locations, each a concert rooted in sounds of the natural environment. Concert–Intertidal documents and recreates a section of the intertidal area of shore-line in Boundary Bay in the traditional unceded territory of the Semiahmoo First Nations, in the Pacific Northwest, BC Canada. Viewers can discover the mudflats of this intertidal zone, and be immersed in the sounds of the wind, water, and various migratory bird species that pass by this area.  The second installation, Concert- Garden, captures the natural textures and sounds of a wild garden in Padula, Italy. This scene is inspired by the three seats carved into tree stumps among the grasses and foliage, a setting to notice the local aural rhythms.

(Sound field recordings on location, and 3D scans. The audio and 3D elements are brought together in Unity)

https://pmajanoart.com

HS is an interactive metaverse installation that visualizes and sonifies cultural, biological, and informational networks through AI, quantum algorithms, and real-time co-creation.

(Unity scripts and assets, 
machine learning for data processing
agents)

https://robertlisek.com

In an increasingly digital Universe, where individual identities are becoming ever more indistinguishable, what role does the individual play in his fictitious uniqueness?

This work seeks to explore the theme of the depersonalization within the virtual world through a particulate graphic component that gradually dissolves, only to reassemble into the essence of the physical body belonging to the tangible everyday dimension.

(Digital art / Live Performance)

www.simonemartinotta.com