Virtuelle Kunsthalle

On the first virtual upper floor of the Virtuelle Kunsthalle you will find five works from our collection presented in different ways. Two central aspects can be experienced through different interaction possibilities: Simultaneism with its deliberate use of color contrasts and the endeavor to bring the dynamics of sounds onto the canvas, in short: music as a source of artistic inspiration. For our first prototype, however, the content was more of a means to an end.

Our main aim was to make the technical scope of our virtual reality application available for testing as condensed as possible, as the first prototype was primarily intended to explore how we should develop the Virtuelle Kunsthalle in the long term and what opportunities and hurdles events with the use of virtual reality present.

Two rooms in our virtual architecture therefore focus on the power of virtual sensory perception and ease of use (the room with the different wall colors and the room where you can decide for yourself which song accompanies your picture viewing). Two rooms allow you to get creative yourself via more sophisticated controls – either with three-dimensional patterns or color pieces from the artworks (the room in which you can take patterns from the wall and the room in which you can draw color areas from the otherwise black and white pictures). The camera function can also be used to capture and exhibit your own creations. The different ways of integrating text, music and a video test the multimedia presentation possibilities of the virtual space.

Overall, we are testing different levels of individual and collective customization, manipulation and design possibilities that differ from those in our physical exhibitions.

However, we have not yet exhausted all the possibilities. Find out more about why this is the case and how the whole project came about and how the first prototype came about.

Or read more about the technical background.