About VISA
Virtual Institute of Simulation Art
The Virtual Institute of Simulation Art (VISA) is an online art center and gallery, currently displaying 4 WebVR collections: Crisis, Sanctuary, Oasis, and Unmapped. VISA allows viewers to travel to a “hyperreality” consisting of artist-designed simulated environments. The space was conceived by Leily Khatibi & Kiki Wu as a curatorial project. Our mission is to leverage digital art and collaboration through open-source, web-based, immersive media that is accessible to anyone with a computer and stable internet connection.
A total number of 23 website-specific works are displayed on visatopia.xyz from __ May 2020–__ May 2022. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, new and experimental ways of exhibiting art online arises. In this exhibition, a wide variety of responses to the current social and environmental changes are manifested as digital video and 3D renders. These pieces are created by an internationally diverse group of Art75 students (Introduction to Digital Video Art class–sections 1 & 2, spring 2020) from CADRE New Media Lab, San José State University.
COLLECTIONS INFORMATION
I: Crisis
II: Sanctuary
III: Oasis
IV: Unmapped
How To Navigate WebVR?
This experience works on desktop/mobile and with Cardboard VR, Vive, Rift, Daydream, GearVR headsets. For best immersion, using your VR headset is recommended to view the collections in 360, but you can also just use your computer or phone without a headset and click/tap and drag to look around. On the desktop, use ASDW or the arrow keys to fly over the environment.