VR/RV: a Recreational Vehicle in Virtual Reality
Peter d’Agostino © 1993/2020
Video Installation Preview: 6 of 11min loop Edition: 5+2 AP
On a drive in a recreational vehicle (RV) through a virtual reality (VR) theme park, VR/RV explores the displacement and disembodiment of a technologically determined culture which co-mingles video games and computerized war. Floating within this immersive computer generated electronic superhighway, video billboards serve as staging areas for utopian visions and dystopian nightmares- the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and ‘smart bombs’ of the Persian Gulf War.
Exhibitions: Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Krannert Art Gallery, University of Illinois, Champaign Lehman College Art Gallery, New York