Online, we can be anything we want to be. But how far can our virtual identities take us? With the rise of the metaverse and VR, the limitations of the real world no longer apply, erasing the boundaries of race, gender, sexuality and so on. Gender Bender Time Traveller is the first queer exhibition that challenges these parameters by connecting real with virtual spaces using VR, AR and 3D animation. 21 international artists came together for the exhibition, which is held at the LSD Sex Shop on Kurfürstenstraße, to showcase unique ways of expressing identity. Whether it is the portrayal of hyper-masculinity in social media by Bob Bottle using 3D render, or Jabu Newman’s video about South-African youth culture, all the artists deal with the same theme yet use completely different methods. Behind the show is Geisted, a tech agency and digital art platform whose goal is to connect artists through exhibitions, events and their NFT Marketplace.
Geisted founder Amir Fattal, is also showing off one of his own projects, Love Child, which uses new DNA visualization technology and 3D scanning. For this artwork, he collaborated with Mark D.Shriver, Professor of Anthropology and Genetic Studies at Penn State University in the US. Together they extracted Fattal’s facial features from his raw DNA, combined it with the DNA of his six closest friends and formed into an artwork that visualizes their offspring. The work is one of the highlights of a show that lets you dive into a futuristic world that our reality is rapidly approaching.
Text: Theresa Garwing / Credit: Miyö-Van-Stenis, Sasha-Katz & Geisted
Gender Bender Time Traveller (until 30.10.2022), Kurfürstenstr.151, 10785 Berlin–Schöneberg; map
Tue–Wed 14–21h, Thu–Sun 12–19h
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