Towards Planetary Healing
Ayton’s ConstellationXR is the inaugural exhibit wrapping Earth with a network of digital art installations. The XR art features an iconic tower and orbiting spheres of digital assets to illuminate and transmute invisible spaces of power as interfaces of healing.
ConstellationXR invites humanity to exchange ideas, engage in meditative flow, and navigate unseen pathways and currents of human connectivity. Ultimately, ConstellationXR unveils patterns of conductivity portals encircling the globe as a vehicle for planetary healing. Ayton infuses the XR art with the guiding lights of Hope, Empathy, Awe and Love (HEAL) required to counter human despair and collective trauma from chronic social isolation, disasters, eco-grief and anxiety. Launched in Linz, future installation sites draw attention to areas of regeneration, urban concentration, ecological concern, spiritual energy and personal inspiration.
Building on Ayton’s New Babel, a 10-story tall AR tower in Union Square, NYC (2019), the project sees towers as channels for communication, intelligence and energy exchange. ConstellationXR embraces the spiraling, colossal column of New Babel, and transforms the original rotating globe above into cascading XR orbs of digital art. Embodying metaphorical, imagined worlds, ConstellationXR draws on Ayton’s Interplanetary VR Sustainable Futures installation, a VR galaxy-gallery of 17 VR orbs related to the 17 UNSDGs with art by 15+ artists connecting space exploration with earth sustainability through a reconstructed planetary assemblage.
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ConstellationXR
William T. Ayton (GB)
Ayton’s ConstellationXR wraps Earth with networked nodes of digital public art. Each installation features an iconic tower and orbiting spheres of XR assets to inspire insight, navigate pathways and unveil patterns of conductivity portals encircling the globe as a vehicle for planetary healing.
About
Meteor Studio (Mobile Experiential Technology through Embedded Optimization Research) is an engineering research laboratory that studies software and hardware systems for augmented reality and virtual reality and straddles the School of Arts, Media & Engineering and the School of Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering at Arizona State University. Its
mission as the foremost educational environment is to nurture students to become forward-thinking leaders with scholarly aptitude, imagination and whimsicality, professionalism and integrity, resourcefulness and mindfulness.
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Ayton’s ConstellationXR wraps Earth with networked nodes of digital public art. Each installation features an iconic tower and orbiting spheres of XR assets to inspire insight, navigate pathways and unveil patterns of conductivity portals encircling the globe as a vehicle for planetary healing.
