Floral art in metaverse
Floral art in metaverse (메타버스 꽃 장식) refers to a digital flower show in the metaverse which represents the digitally formed and decorated flowers and plants in the virtual world designed and presented by the creator and users of metaverse.
In futurism and science fiction, the metaverse is a single, universal and immersive virtual world that is facilitated by the use of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) headsets. In a real world, a metaverse is a network of 3D virtual worlds focused on social connection.[1]
Sci-fi Ready Player One (2011) and its film adaptation (2018) depict a shared VR landscape called "The OASIS". It is a dystopian science fiction franchise created by Ernest Cline. The OASIS functions both as a massively multiplayer online role-playing game and as a virtual society.
[One sentence tip] 메타버스 꽃 장식이란 메타버스라고 하는 가상세계에서 자기의 분신인 아바타를 통해 여러 가지 사회활동을 하는 가운데 디지털로 표현되는 꽃과 식물을 써서 아름답게 장식하는 것을 말하며, VR/AR 헤드셋을 이용해 이를 조작하고 조종할 수 있다.
[Caption] Jenny Chang makes a presentation of a digital flower at an exhibition held in Seoul in May 2022.
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Keywords
floral art, floral art designer, metaverse, virtual world, ZEPETO
Virtual space flowers
In many ways, virtual space plants, designed and formed with 3D computer technology, resemble the real life plants. In a virtual world, digital plants would connect the real life and the virtual one. In Korea, such virtual space plants are seen on ZEPETO, a 3D avatar service operated by Naver Z.
A floral art designer[2] may use real life flowers in her digital work. While doing imaginative designing, she works out virtual flowers by applying seven design programs. These design programs take advantage of VR technology based on the real world. It's just like the avatar in the ZEPETO Metaverse based on the real life portrait. Thus, the computer programs will turn virtual flowers out of real life flowers.
Different from Living flowers
Working on cut-flowers has many constraints – flowers cut to death or withered, outdoor flower arrangements on the risk of bad weather, grand party floral decorations at uncontrollable places, and so on.
After encountering these kinds of difficulties and troubles, a floral designer devised digital flowers in relation to the Metaverse. Frankly speaking, digital flowers can be preserved for good, never to be withered. They are enjoyable anywhere and anytime with digital devices at hand.
Taking advantage of Technology
To be sure, the more advanced Technology evolves, the more fit Nature becomes thereto.
Take an example of the 'HSBC Rain Vortex', the world's tallest indoor waterfall at Changi Airport, Singapore. It is the typical case of combining Nature and Technology for the effect of natural air conditioning and recycling of rainwater. Also, there are numerous building gardens in Singapore. Those vertical gardens with building walls covered by plants are proved highly effective to save energy and keep interiors from humidity.
Truly, plants in nature are opposite to concrete buildings in downtown. But they can be connected by means of technology like IOT (Internet of Things) devices for the purpose to create convenient environment.
Gardening in Virtual world
In the pandemic era, people are accustomed to the new term of Metaverse, which are represented by ROBLOX game and ZEPETO avatar service in Korea, which are available in the Metaverse platform.
For an instance, Gucci has founded a virtual space of Gucci Garden in ZEPETO. My avatar took a walk and enjoyed swimming at a pool in the Gucci Garden. I was surprised to experience to try a Gucci fashion. I saw other Generation MZ people talk each other and make friends to share various lifestyles.
In April 2020, American rapper Travis Scott performed a Metaverse concert titled "Astronomical" to promote his new album. The previous year's real world show was impossible because of COVID-19. This time the game platform Fortnite built a stage in the middle of an island chain in the map, where Travis performed songs while stomping around the map like Godzilla. It was a short show performed five times in a week. The show was attended by 27.7 millions in total in a virtual world.
This episode shows we are living in an interface between real life and virtual one. Someday in the near future, a floral art designer can find herself on the stage of a Digital Garden conducting collaborative works with foreigners across the border, virtual concerts with musicians and promotional events with brand manufacturers. and opening communication channels with Gen MZ youths.
Post-Corona pandemic era
In this context, floral designer Jenny Chang explained her idea as follows:
- As for independent-minded Millenials with free spirit, who are familiar with smartphone rather than book, email rather than hand-written letter, computer rather than TV, an imaginative garden free of conventional stereotypes would be certainly preferred.
- Then, another thought emerges in the midst of paradigm shift caused by ongoing coronavirus pandemic. What if we imagine a flower garden in the metaverse with a simple and innocent mind?
Come and imagine flowers free of such constraints as space and time, and even colors.
In the eyes of children, which color represents a flower? Does it look like a candy?
- What kind of garden is in the imagination of children?
- Is it necessary for a garden to be seated on the earth? Let's go beyond such imagination.
- In the metaverse, what kind of sense or feeling is appropriate to a garden?
- Finally, is the Spirit of Collaboration also important in the avatar-dominated metaverse?
Poetry
Gitanjali No.2. written by Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Nobel Prize laureate poet from India, has the following things in common with the floral art in metaverse:
- They adore the eternity and immutability across the universe;
- They are located in a different dimension of the world from ours; and
- Only the creative and dedicated person can do the job.
Gitanjali (meaning "song of offerings". 신에게 바치는 송가/頌歌) is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Tagore. Its central theme is devotion, and its motto is "I am here to sing thee songs". Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, largely for the English translation, Song Offerings published in 1912.[3]
Gitanjali No.2. by Rabindranath Tagore | 기탄잘리 - 라빈드라나드 타고르 |
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When thou commandest me to sing it seems that my heart would break with pride; |
당신이 나에게 노래를 부르라고 명령하실 때 나의 가슴은 자랑스러움으로 터질 것만 같았습니다 |
- Translated into English by Tagore himself, then into Korean by Ryu Si-hwa
References
- ↑ The term "metaverse" originated in the 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash as a portmanteau of "meta" and "universe." Metaverse development is often linked to advancing virtual reality technology due to increasing demands for immersion. Recent interest in metaverse development is influenced by Web3, a concept for a decentralized iteration of the internet.
- ↑ Floral designer Jenny Chang explained her idea in an interview with the 2GIL29 GALLERY reporter in January 2022. She made a duo art exhibition under the title "Over the fence" with illustrator Park Jieun at 2GIL29 GALLERY, Seoul, in February 2022.
- ↑ 기탄잘리 원시(原詩) 157편은 1910년 인도에서 벵골어로 출판되었다. 타고르는 그 중 57편을 추려 직접 영역(英譯)을 하였는데 영역판에 수록된 시에는 제목이 없고 번호만 붙였다. 원시의 유려한 운율과 힘찬 박력이 결여된 점이 있다고는 하나, 이는 영어 번역이라기보다 영어에 의한 새로운 작품이라고 보아야 할 것이다. 신(神)에의 귀의와 열렬한 경애(敬愛)의 정, 즉 뜨거운 신앙을 골자로 한 이 시집에는 경건하면서도 감미로운 시가 많다. 네이버 지식백과(두산백과), 기탄잘리.
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