VR Art Camp SHOW & TELL
with Nkiruka Oparah, Zsófia Szemző and Judit Navratil

Experience being in a virtual art piece while engaging in a conversation with the artist!
Resident artists give a 20 min tour in their VR studios that they’ve built during their residency. Please join our Show & Tell in the Art Camp Commons in Mozilla Hubs*!
Link will be sent upon registration.

Here is a video that helps you to navigate in the Art Camp Commons: https://youtu.be/jSN8G1no9kc

Art Camp is a homesome virtual art residency and a bi-monthly art gathering, an alternative to our many missing social events.
We investigate the possibilities of creating and inhabiting a communal place with care, that is accessible both on a browser and in virtual reality. Art Camp is a facilitating platform for art sharing, critique, collaboration, and experimental performance that maintains digital mental care for womnx and underrepresented artists. The residency accumulates in a Show’n Tell event on the last Sundays of every second month.

ABOUT our January Cohort:

nkiruka oparah is an artist and poet based in Oakland, CA. They have developed a cross-disciplinary approach that combines drawing, video, printmaking, and assemblage. Evoking abstract and ephemeral forms, soft portraits, and looping gifs, they consider the body through memory-related research that finds its center in a reflection of the elasticity of time and space. In addition to their studio work, nkiruka is a professor in Printmedia, facilitator of dream workshops, and a founding member of 5/5 Collective.
www.nkirukaoparah.com

Zsófia Szemző:
"My work seeks to explore human’s place in nature and its social environment. My interest leads to anthropological thinking, interpreting and highlighting interactions and creating fusion. I am also interested in the possibilities of implicit narration in human interactions and the layers present in stories, personal or broader history written at the intersections of these layers. Inventory of simple elements and the perception of time with an ironic edge. In most recent years my work was tending towards creating a mythology of an undefined culture that is the melting pot as a place of origin, the origin story of a culture embedded in nature. I try to place my work and myself outside of the mental state that places constant growth in focus. To process the world slowly. In doing so I also think about others processing the same phenomena. I also constantly try to understand diverse experiences by highlighting the risk factors and uncertainty that we have to face during everyday life and specific social experiences, but turning it into some form of metaphor. Are processes that weigh us down reversible? In my work the constant medium is drawing and other paper based mediums. Multiple mediums are also present throughout my practice: from video series to ceramic objects, technical and manual mediums are equally present. The aspect of looking at human’s place in their social and historic environment also takes my work towards participatory practices in certain projects where the viewer or participant’s experience is in focus in these cases. Some of my works are ephemeral, some are structures of metaphors, and may be a way to rethink our usual relations. “Szemző's cargo is social science, fiction and criticism in a particular mix, which transforms science into magic.” says Judit Csatlós and Szilvia Nagy, anthropologists, curators. I currently live and work in Budapest, I lived in Paris for 5 years and in France for several other shorter periods."
http://zsofiaszemzo.com/

Judit Navratil’s practice is multivalent, engaging performance, social practices, drawing, as well as video and VR. The relationship between the real and virtual is personally significant to Judit, as she has moved between several different countries and cultures in her lifetime, and relies on digital means to connect to people and places in an attempt to construct “home.” Her projects are as much affective mappings of what it means to continuously oscillate between analog and digital, past and present. Navratil uses her body-device to keep balance through her compass-meditation: the Long Distance Somersault career. Rolling as far as she can helps her seeking higher alternatives and to gaze in the Eye of the Hurricane.
Navratil earned an MFA in Painting at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2008 and an MFA at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2019. She has been exhibiting in Hungary, Canada, France, Korea and the Bay Area. Her work has been recognized through awards and residencies including the Cadogan Art Award, a residency at Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), the Dennis Leon and Christin Nelson Scholarship, a Presidential Scholarship for Anderson Ranch and the Parent Artist Residency Award of Kala Art Institute. She is currently an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts.
www.navratiljudit.com

*Hubs is accessible with or without VR headsets, simply in your browser (computer, phones, tablets etc.) - best on Firefox.
Use these keys for navigation:
WS (move forward-back) // holding SHIFT makes your move faster
AD (move left-right)
cursor or QE for rotation
press G to enable flying mode (and don’t get stuck on 3D objects)
or find further info here: https://hubs.mozilla.com/docs/hubs-controls.html

Space is limited to 21 active participants. As a Room Guest, you may engage in conversation with the artists after the presentations. In case the room is full, you can still watch the event from the Lobby, which is limited for viewing only. Please arrive on time in order to be our Room Guest! (Link will be sent upon registration)