Diurnal Heartbeat Shanghai VR 04 is a video with music of a Hybrid VR Painting by Dave Alber. Diurnal Heartbeat Shanghai invites you to use virtual reality (VR) technology to experience time and space at Shanghai’s Bund. NFT of video experience with music is accompanied by a download of EXCLUSIVE FILES: 1.) a high-rez video file, 2.) Dave Alber’s Hybrid VR Painting as a VR EXPERIENCE bundled in the following formats (Android, Oculus Go, Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift (S), and VIVE), 3.) a PDF of Dave Alber’s art book Hybrid VR Paintings, 4.) a PDF poster of the series with a special link to view your painting online as a VR experience, and 5.) an instruction manual to maximize your experience of your Hybrid VR Painting.
The viewer’s 360° rotation mirrors the earth’s diurnal rotation while demonstrating the pulsations between dawn and dusk, East and West, and old and new on both sides of Shanghai’s Huangpu River.
VR technology here isn’t used arbitrarily, but to invite you into conversations about the value of cultural continuity—such as the emphatic incorporation of representational art and traditional media into virtual reality—time and space, Eastern and Western collaborations, and the paradoxical complexity of our moment and place in the contemporary world.
This video experience of Dave Alber’s Hybrid VR Paintings uses Shanghai’s Bund as a symbol—sort of a microcosm—for where the whole world is now. Shanghai—and in particular, the architecture on both sides of the river—are a snapshot, as it were, for what the whole world is presently experiencing as we move into a more globally interconnected society.
As we rotate in a 360° experience, we experience the global culture's experience of Eastern culture, Western culture, and a blended mix. Dawn and dusk reminds us of the earth’s rotation, the passage of time, the transformations of culture—both regionally and globally—of which the location is a symbol.
Your direct 360° experience functions as a metaphor for placing us in the CENTER of a symbolic representation for what everyone on earth to some degree is presently experiencing in a globally interconnected world. The “heartbeat” of Diurnal Heartbeat Shanghai is emphatically a regional experience, yet simultaneously… it is also a global experience. Specifically, Diurnal Heartbeat Shanghai VR 04 places you at Shanghai’s Bund on the Pudong side of the Huangpu River in front of Shanghai’s Oriental Pearl Tower, Shanghai International Convention Center, and Shanghai Tower at early sunset.
This is a video presentation of one of Dave Alber’s Hybrid VR Paintings.
Dave Alber is the inventor of Hybrid VR Paintings—invented as an unbroken bridge in the continuity from traditional painting to VR painting—these physical paintings allow a VR experience. Dave's paintings are a marriage of cutting-edge technology and traditional craft in art. While exhibiting art overseas, he invented Hybrid VR Paintings to push traditional painting to the utmost. Alber revealed his new medium in exhibitions, three books, an online VR gallery, and the VR Paintings app. Dave Alber’s Hybrid VR Paintings can be found at found at: davealber.com.
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