AGUSTIN DI LUCIANO'S CHRONOTOPIC REALITY AT MARCO MUSEUM
Last few weeks to enjoy a unique experience at the Museum of Contemporary Art in La Boca: an immersive exhibition that combines art, technology, and audience participation.
The technology artist Agustín Di Luciano presents Chronotopic Reality at the MARCO Museum (La Boca), an immersive virtual-reality installation that transforms drawing into a living, evolving landscape. Conceived in dialogue with the museum’s architecture, the project invites visitors to enter a capsule made of textile membrane in order to inhabit virtual reality. The experience allows participants to draw with their hands in space, activate music-reactive scenes, and cross portals that connect with the subtlety of the cosmos and nature.
Curator Melina Ojagnan explains: “The work proposes an expanded drawing that inhabits a new weave of time and space. The artist shapes a landscape where art and technology converse to expand the limits of what is possible. The viewer experiences, in real time, a sensation that feels as palpable and authentic as the physical world.”
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Agustín Di Luciano: Realidad cronotópica, en el Museo MARCO
Inspired by the artist’s Hyperspace series, various monochrome atmospheres of white lines activate living compositions, making space pulse like an organism. The journey culminates with Forest Goddess, a colossal being whose skin merges nature and machine, symbolizing the connection between humans, technology, and nature. The work explores lived time and affective space—a subjective interpretation of Bakhtin’s chronotope—so that the viewer’s gesture produces variations in the image. Drawing thus ceases to be a trace and becomes a shared process.
Chronotopic Reality is an immersive 4- to 8-minute VR journey using the Oculus Quest 3 device. The work presents scenes designed by the artist that respond in real time to the viewer’s body as they interact and to external sound, making each experience unique and unrepeatable. It stands out for using controller-free hand tracking as the primary interaction interface.
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Agustín Di Luciano: Realidad cronotópica, en el Museo MARCO
Technology is integrated into the artist’s language; for years, he has explored, through hand drawing, an aesthetic of white lines over deep blacks and the intersection between technology and landscape, bringing this exploration into virtual space. “I wanted the audience to draw time, not just space. Each line opens a door, and each door returns an emotion,” explains Agustín Di Luciano.
Among its innovative technological elements is the use of controller-less interaction based on the movement of viewers’ hands as the main interface, positioning the piece as a pioneering work in operating entirely in this way—without controllers—to achieve an interactive artistic experience. The work was created with state-of-the-art mobile graphics tools (Unreal Engine 5 + Meta Quest 3) and stands out for its pioneering character within the museum context.
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Agustín Di Luciano: Realidad cronotópica, en el Museo MARCO
Agustín Di Luciano (b. 1981) is a visual artist, engineer, and tech entrepreneur. He has exhibited at the NASDAQ Building (Oncology Ventures, 2024); participated in Miami, New York, and Denver Tech Weeks (2023); Heart of Okeanos Digital Twin, Faena Art, Miami (2022); and Metaverse Art Week, Decentraland (2022), where he created the evolving sculpture Tauromaquia. He painted the mural Epic Story at ITBA (Buenos Aires) and showed digital work at SXSW (Austin). He explores translating drawing into VR experiences reactive to gesture and sound.
The exhibition remains open through September 7, 2025, at MARCO Museum of Contemporary Art, Av. Almte. Brown 1031, La Boca, Buenos Aires (Argentina).
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