Make Your Own God (VR interactive exhibition)
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12.11.2024 @ PrivatePrint Studio
"Make Your Own God" is in-studio experiment on a virtual interactive exhibition.
The concept for the VR exhibition "Make Your Own God" is based on the premise that the creation of the gods is very similar to what is today a virtual logic.
The historical religious mechanism of God's creation always intersected between political propaganda and artistic craftsmanship. The results were always images with no historical evidence but were products of imagination. In an eclectic manner, gods or godlike beings consisted of different segments: animals, humans, plants, etc., especially in the pre-Christian period. These manmade creations, which had a surreal character, were convincing and compatible with the place of the origin, that is, the human mind.
"Make Your Own God" is a joke about where the gods originated, allowing the audience to experience the process of creating them.
TEAM 3D designer: Borko Hadjievski, artist and curator: Ilija Prokopiev, interaction mechanics: Andrej Burovski; the exhibition is made in collaboration with Galactic Omnivore
Instructions:
1. To explore and experience the "Make Your Own God" exhibition of the new interactive VR Studio, download it from our PPVRStudio account on the itch.io platform. Click the download button in the right-hand upper corner.
2. The exhibition is made to be experienced only on your computer and not for your smart phone.
3. Download the exhibition file.
4. The file you have downloaded is zipped and needs to be extracted. After the extraction, find the MYOG.exe file in the Windows folder and double-click on it. This will start the exhibition.
5. Once that has happened, press the Esc button on your keyboard to toggle the menu.
6. There, you can adjust the mouse sensitivity and see the necessary controls.
7. The exhibition is interactive; you can explore and make your own work. You can also take a screenshot of your work by pressing the F9 key and hold for a few seconds. Screenshots are saved in the hidden folder with the following path: C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Local\MYOG\Saved\Images. You need to replace YourUsername with the one from your computer's name (i.e. Robin), and you can paste the path in your Windows Explorer.
8. If you decide to share your work created in the framework of the exhibition, then the following caption: Make your own God, PrivatePrint VR Studio 2024: Interactive.
PrivatePrint - VR Studio is a collaborative program for curating and designing virtual exhibitions. The program started with the idea of the architect and 3D designer Borko Hadjievski, one of the founders of PrivatePrint Studio and our long-time collaborator, who created the virtual model of our studio.
VR Studio 2024: Interactive is co-financed by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of North Macedonia.
