Physical Art, VR, and AI Come Together at This New Exhibit in BGC

(SPOT.ph) If your idea of a fun weekend is immersing yourself in art, here's a new exhibit you can go to: OUBEY Mindkiss: The Art of Resonance. The exhibit showcases the works of German artist OUBEY (1958–2004) through eight unique stations at The Mind Museum.

Viewers can go through all eight stations and experience the artist's art through physical paintings, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence. The exhibit runs until October 8 and ticket prices start at P420. 

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The eight stations you can check out at the OUBEY Mindkiss exhibit:

OUBEY Experience

This station shows a film of the artist's thinking and work process, explained by the artist himself. The film uses original visual and sound recordings, Super 8, and video material.

OUBEY VR Experience

This analog art, created by Kubikfoto3, takes the viewers on a virtual ride into the world of OUBEY's paintings. Viewers are meant to see and explore the paintings as if they are in them—and not simply look at them from a framed canvas.

Encounters with OUBEY

Created by Dagmar Woyde-Koehler, this station takes us through five significant years when OUBEY encountered people from different professions, generations, and cultures. People featured in this series of shorts are doctors, professors, school kids, and a 10-year-old boy from Uganda.

Reflections of Oubey

This AI art is created by Juliana and Andrey Vrady. In a video, Vrady explains that there are sensors that read the viewers' facial expressions, get the average of the emotions, and are then turned into art. The art is generated from a code that visualized the emotions of OUBEY's art.

Magic Bowl

This installation lets viewers touch a silver ball, which transforms the art projected on the screen. As your hand touches the ball, the art changes colors and the amount of light that either shows or hides its details.

Genesis Analogue

The Genesis Analogue is the physical art portion of the exhibit. This art piece has 10 panels that, although spaced out from one another, have the same vibrant, colorful strokes that tie each piece together.

Genesis Video

Natialie Kiës' song is accompanied by a five-minute visual of OUBEY's Genesis art piece. Filmmaker Christopher Harrer created the video that zooms into the smaller details of Genesis before it gradually starts to show a wider view of the art.

The Polish musician created a song called "Mówić Przez Sen," which roughly translates to "Speaking Through A Dream" in English. This feels like a jazzy lullaby but with soft lyrics that include lines such as "You sing to me the dream about the time when I will be whole Where do I come from, where do I go?"

Genesis 360 Installation

This 360° installation was first presented at The Mind Museum in Manila. The immersive installation lets parts of the analog painting slowly move around the three walls, while the fourth wall shows the entire piece throughout.

Where to buy Oubey Mindkiss ticket:

The Mind Museum's Oubey All-Day Pass costs P550 per head, while there's a cheaper option of an Oubey Exhibition-Only ticket priced at P420 per head. The catch with the latter ticket is that you can only stay in the exhibit for 1.5 hours.

If you plan on going on a weekday, The Mind Museum's Special Weekday All-Day Pass costs P950. This includes all-day access to the Oubey Mindless exhibit, Museum Galleries, Connected to the Wild, and Science-in-the-Park. And if you're going in a group of four, there's a Special Weekday All-Day Pass for four which costs P3,400. Take note that the weekday passes can only be used  Wednesdays, Thursdays, or Fridays.

Oubey Mindkiss: The Art of Resonance runs until October at The Mind Museum, JY Campos Park, 3rd Avenue, Taguig City. For more information, visit The Mind Museum's website.

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