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Various Rooms at panthermodern.org, Founded 2013
The internet art I found, Panther Modern, is a “file-based exhibition space” to “encourage artists to create site-specific installations for the internet”, as itself described. In this project, what is really amazing is that the online art gallery architecture would grow along with every project gets involved. Each artwork in this museum would take up a new room. It’s really interesting of the idea to combine the housing based gallery location online with the digital fabrication, and the latest series of rooms continues to fill the 3D spaces with unexpected surprises. To this extent, it seems to have a tangible world inside the internet and each of the artwork exactly owns a physical space.
The current bird view of Panther
When you first log in the home page, all seventeen room, and their name would show up on the page clearly. While the background is guiding you around the museum.
Homepage 1
Homepage 2
Click and get in each room, you will find all of them were as if really exhibited on the water-floor. It gives you a feeling of visiting and hanging around in an art museum. The reflection from the water, cool spotlight, and the feeling of depth from the showing perspective invite the visitors into a virtual physical art museum.
Room 17
I really like this art project not only because it creates an online virtual gallery model to interact with the exhibited artworks, but also because it forms up a new relationship of art exhibition and virtual reality. It is rather like to add more reality to the online art community. The gallery itself is also an artwork of the contradictory combination of reality and virtuality. The builder also takes advantage of the feature of the generative art of the computer as a medium to convey the message. Instead of simply assembling the artwork and show them, this website allows the user to interact with the process of visiting as if they are really visiting a physical art museum.