Messengers of AI

AR Opera. Physically, his exhibition at the Poolhaus Blankense in Hamburg consisted of seven large scale oil-paintings depicting the 'Messengers of the AI', arranged around the void of an empty former swimming pool.

However, the paintings had a virtual layer which could be perceived through the HoloLens. In their 'idle' state the paintings were augmented with a paintover of animated brush-strokes. Wearing the HoloLens you could meander through the exhibition and experience this new form of hybrid painting, made of oil and tilt-brush.

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All of the seven Messengers also exist as VR sculptures, as 3-Dimensional drawings created with the VR painting tool Tiltbrush: Paint brushes and gestural structures painted into mid air. With the means of a VR headseat Dennis has created a new hybrid of drawing and sculpture that are defying the laws of physics.

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In a ‘Wagner-meets-Hollywood’ like opera of almost 20 minutes, these virtual messengers stepped down from their respective paintings and performed an apocalyptic dance right between the audience.

Supported by an epic soundtrack of lucid thruth, which was created by his collaborator Justin Ryan Polisky, Dennis takes the viewer to the end of the western world: Media streams, performances, breaking news, artefacts from the past - sculpture and painting form a holographic collage of the collapse of all values.