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Ava Mirage Wanbli

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Ava Wanbli (1989) is a New Media Performance Artist based in Chicago, IL. Ava utilizes video game engines and live performances to investigate reconstructions of her body to collapse temporalities and archive the persona.

MFA, 2019, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Exhibitions: Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison; Depaul Art Museum, Chicago; Roots and Culture Contemporary Gallery, Chicago; VRSL Gallery, New York City; Elastic Arts Performance Space, Chicago. Publications: Sixty Inches From The Middle, Chicago; New Art City, Chicago. Awards: Break Out Artist of The Year 2024, Chicago; Make A Wave Artist Award, Chicago.

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Virtual Reality is a studio course focused on setting up interactive, head and hand tracked, dynamic, collaborative, stereoscopic, three dimensional computer graphic spaces for large format displays such as the CAVE. The class will cover the necessary programming, modeling, interaction, and audio components to start mastering this digital craft.

Through the course, we will consider various artworks realized in Virtual Reality as well as other immersive devices and mixed reality settings, and how they inform public consciousness of mental spaces.

Accompanying readings are but a sample of current endeavors meant to open up a common discourse from where to discuss issues of immersion and human experience, such as metaphors of space, dynamic form in three dimensions, perception and representation, simulation, information, mapping, embodiment, and telepresence.

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2185

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3