*VIRTUAL* | RESCHEDULED to Tuesday, June 6th | 6:30-8PM

Join Dr. Guynup, an award-winning VR artist, academic author, and innovative teacher, as he demonstrates how artists can use Frame VR to create a virtual art gallery. This innovative web-based program is revolutionizing meetings, events and campuses and has the potential to redefine accessibility in the arts by bringing galleries and art directly to audiences.

In this workshop, Dr. Guynup will give a tutorial on Frame VR and how to create a basic virtual gallery space. Participants will be able to try this program for themselves and create their own “Frame” so please bring a laptop.

Registration is capped at 7 participants. If the registration becomes full, please email Holly at “holly@asiwny.org” to join the waitlist.

This program is a presented in partnership between Arts Services Inc. and the Arts Council for Wyoming County as a part of the WNY Art and Immersive Technology program. You can learn more about at asiwny.org or artswyco.org.

This project is made possible with funds from the NYSCA in Partnership with Wave Farm: Immersive Art & Technology Initiative, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.


Meet the Presenter

Dr. Guynup is an award-winning VR artist, academic author, and innovative teacher.  As an artist in the 1990’s, he explored storytelling with shape changing avatars and used poetry as a tool to unpack the design language of virtual space. As a professional, he created early MMO games with Ars Electronica winner Andy Best’s Meet Factory. At GRA Interactive, he built multimillion dollar training software for CSX Rail, Georgia Pacific, UPS, and others. An online game design teacher since 2006, his bridging of VR, poetry, and teaching happened when chairing the Web3D Art Gallery at SIGGRAPH 2010. There he saw an opportunity and created a class where online students crafted virtual poetry inside multiuser 3D worlds. The class would become a free summer mentorship / internship and be shared with students from Miami University, Columbia Teachers College, The University of Moscow-Idaho, The University of Baltimore and others throughout the following years. After another successful run with a new platform, FrameVR, the virtual art and design class is being added to the curriculum at Southern New Hampshire University.