Designing Digital Spaces for Digital Art
Metaverses and 3D virtual worlds host numerous exhibition spaces that often replicate physical environments skeuomorphically. This study analyzes 26 digital exhibitions—ranging from institutional virtual twins and fully digital museums to independent artist showcases—to investigate approaches to...
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2025-07-01
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Metaverses and 3D virtual worlds host numerous exhibition spaces that often replicate physical environments skeuomorphically. This study analyzes 26 digital exhibitions—ranging from institutional virtual twins and fully digital museums to independent artist showcases—to investigate approaches to 3D spatial design for the exhibition of digital art pieces. Findings show that only a minority (10/26) adopt speculative spatial strategies, while the majority embraces reality-mimicking, showing a clear tendency to replicate real-world spaces. We investigated the technological processes behind the creation of these spaces to understand how the intrinsic characteristics of the tools used potentially influence design choices, embedding presets that favor replication. Despite the widespread use of similar technological frameworks, some exhibitions stand out as speculative cases, demonstrating the possibility of experimental and critical spatial innovation.
This contrast highlights the fact that while technology shapes and sometimes constrains design, it does not determine it entirely; creative appropriation can push the bound- aries of virtual exhibition design beyond mere copies of the physical world.
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| spelling | doaj-art-41ea5e279d20443aad45cad0529348e12025-08-20T03:58:48ZengBologna University pressDIID1594-85282785-22452025-07-018510.30682/diid8525gDesigning Digital Spaces for Digital ArtLucilla Grossi0Luca Guerrini1Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi VanvitelliPolitecnico di Milano Metaverses and 3D virtual worlds host numerous exhibition spaces that often replicate physical environments skeuomorphically. This study analyzes 26 digital exhibitions—ranging from institutional virtual twins and fully digital museums to independent artist showcases—to investigate approaches to 3D spatial design for the exhibition of digital art pieces. Findings show that only a minority (10/26) adopt speculative spatial strategies, while the majority embraces reality-mimicking, showing a clear tendency to replicate real-world spaces. We investigated the technological processes behind the creation of these spaces to understand how the intrinsic characteristics of the tools used potentially influence design choices, embedding presets that favor replication. Despite the widespread use of similar technological frameworks, some exhibitions stand out as speculative cases, demonstrating the possibility of experimental and critical spatial innovation. This contrast highlights the fact that while technology shapes and sometimes constrains design, it does not determine it entirely; creative appropriation can push the bound- aries of virtual exhibition design beyond mere copies of the physical world. https://www.diid.it/diid/index.php/diid/article/view/435Spatial designDigital art exhibitions3D virtual worldsMetaverseDigital art |
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| title | Designing Digital Spaces for Digital Art |
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| topic | Spatial design Digital art exhibitions 3D virtual worlds Metaverse Digital art |
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