Virtual World / Interdimensional Hub
"The Renaissance of the Metaverse" was a large-scale competition launched by the company Mona in early 2022 to promote the creation of virtual worlds on their Metaverse platform.
Mona is seeding the open metaverse through the creation and use of beautiful, unique 3D Spaces. We believe art is about the experience, and the experiences that will store the most value over time will be 3d, one-of-one, and dynamic which is why Mona Spaces are so unique.I submitted "Ana-Kata" and was selected as a recipient of a 3k Design Prize by a team of judges from Dezeen, the Museum of Crypto Art, and Async Art, among other institutions.
The space is built primarily in Rhinoceros 3d and animated iņ Blender and Unity. Custom ambient audio was created in Ableton Live and Audacity. The design itself began with inspiration from a semi-abandoned highway stack exchange near where I grew up, and was abstracted into a "crossroads of the metaverse." Ana-kata imagines an impossible architecture of portals, gliders, levitating subways and megaliths, including 7 Artifakts from one of my digital sculpture series.