Philly’s art scene (and the city in general) just got a very cool new addition. It’s called Wonderspaces, and this beautiful new art venue brings art installations and pieces from all over the world to showcase here in Philly. Wonderspaces currently houses fourteen art installations that all play with the idea of perspective.  The artwork ranges from an award-winning virtual reality short film about a dinner party-turned-alien abduction, to a room where visitors digitally paint the walls with movement. It’s sort of hard to describe, but definitely worth checking out. Tickets and info at www.wonderspaces.com.

• Submergence by Squidsoup

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  Submergence by Squidsoup - Submergence is an immersive installation comprised of 8,064 individual points of light visitors walk through. The lights continually change colors in correspondence to music. Submergence creates awe-inspiring feelings of movement within physical space.

• Sun by Phillip Schutte

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  SUN is an interactive installation which empowers visitors to control the movement of the rise and setting of the sun. As the visitor moves the ball, the position of the sun changes the way the light interacts with the atmosphere.

• Black Balloons by Tadao Cern

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  Black Balloons is comprised of balloons with opposing weights. The artwork explores contradictions; lightness and heaviness, attraction and repulsion, materiality and immateriality.
• Sweet Spot by Shawn Causey and Mark Daniellx

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  Sweet Spot by Shawn Causey and Mark Daniellx - Stop. Stare. Sway. Repeat. Try this near and far. Allow time for the eyes to relax, as if looking through the wall. Move slowly. You may find yourself lost in the moment. You may forget you are looking at string altogether. This is how artists Shawn Causey and Mark Daniell engage with their installation Sweet Spot. It is a meditative, low tech vehicle for an intimate inner dialogue - "What am I seeing?" This work is driven by the artists' fascination with color and optical effect. There is a sense of rhythm that is most effectively experienced in slow motion and in close proximity to the work. – Shawn Causey & Mark Daniell. Sweet Spot is an immersive installation made of 19 miles of multicolor nylon string. Visitors activate the experience by moving; every new perspective reveals color harmonies. The installation brings awareness to the act of seeing and looking.The artwork is composed of 19 miles of nylon string, strung 12 feet high.

• Sweet Spot by Shawn Causey and Mark Daniellx

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  Stop. Stare. Sway. Repeat. Try this near and far. Allow time for the eyes to relax, as if looking through the wall. Move slowly. You may find yourself lost in the moment. You may forget you are looking at string altogether. This is how artists Shawn Causey and Mark Daniell engage with their installation Sweet Spot. It is a meditative, low tech vehicle for an intimate inner dialogue - "What am I seeing?" This work is driven by the artists' fascination with color and optical effect. There is a sense of rhythm that is most effectively experienced in slow motion and in close proximity to the work. – Shawn Causey & Mark Daniell. Sweet Spot is an immersive installation made of 19 miles of multicolor nylon string. Visitors activate the experience by moving; every new perspective reveals color harmonies. The installation brings awareness to the act of seeing and looking.The artwork is composed of 19 miles of nylon string, strung 12 feet high.

• Sweepers Clock by Maarten Baas

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  Sweepers Clock by Maarten Baas - Sweepers Clock is a videotaped performance of two handymen sweeping trash for twelve hours, presenting time in the format of a physical, labor-intensive process. Sweepers Clock is a part of the series of films, Real Time, which are 12-hour performances indicating the time.
• Dinner Party by Charlotte Stoudt, Laura Wexler, and Angel Soto

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  Dinner Party by Charlotte Stoudt, Laura Wexler, and Angel Soto - Dinner Party is a virtual reality film based on the story of Betty and Barney Hill, the couple who reported the first nationally known UFO abduction case in America in the 1960’s. The film takes the visitor through their abduction journey, which is a remarkably different experience for Betty and Barney.

• Dinner Party by Charlotte Stoudt, Laura Wexler, and Angel Soto

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  Dinner Party by Charlotte Stoudt, Laura Wexler, and Angel Soto - Dinner Party is a virtual reality film based on the story of Betty and Barney Hill, the couple who reported the first nationally known UFO abduction case in America in the 1960’s. The film takes the visitor through their abduction journey, which is a remarkably different experience for Betty and Barney.

• Dinner Party by Charlotte Stoudt, Laura Wexler, and Angel Soto

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  Dinner Party by Charlotte Stoudt, Laura Wexler, and Angel Soto - Dinner Party is a virtual reality film based on the story of Betty and Barney Hill, the couple who reported the first nationally known UFO abduction case in America in the 1960’s. The film takes the visitor through their abduction journey, which is a remarkably different experience for Betty and Barney.
• Dinner Party by Charlotte Stoudt, Laura Wexler, and Angel Soto

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  Dinner Party by Charlotte Stoudt, Laura Wexler, and Angel Soto - Dinner Party is a virtual reality film based on the story of Betty and Barney Hill, the couple who reported the first nationally known UFO abduction case in America in the 1960’s. The film takes the visitor through their abduction journey, which is a remarkably different experience for Betty and Barney.

• Dinner Party by Charlotte Stoudt, Laura Wexler, and Angel Soto

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  Dinner Party by Charlotte Stoudt, Laura Wexler, and Angel Soto - Dinner Party is a virtual reality film based on the story of Betty and Barney Hill, the couple who reported the first nationally known UFO abduction case in America in the 1960’s. The film takes the visitor through their abduction journey, which is a remarkably different experience for Betty and Barney.

• The Last Word by Illegal Art

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  The Last Word by Illegal Art - The Last Word is an invitation to share thoughts left unsaid. Thousands of tightly rolled pieces of paper, dyed red on one end and left untouched on the other offer an opportunity to anonymously complete your conversations or explore the unexpressed sentiments of others.
• The Last Word by Illegal Art

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  The Last Word by Illegal Art - The Last Word is an invitation to share thoughts left unsaid. Thousands of tightly rolled pieces of paper, dyed red on one end and left untouched on the other offer an opportunity to anonymously complete your conversations or explore the unexpressed sentiments of others.

• Body Paint by Memo

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  Body Paint by Memo - Akten - Playing on our natural instinct to express ourselves through movement and dance, Body Paint interprets our physical gestures into evolving compositions. Body Paint is about interaction experience, captured through this motion and the energy of the body.

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