Wetware: a room and its record

The original Wetware was a gallery you could enter in a browser without owning a dedicated headset. I wanted people to move around works, see them from different angles and encounter their arrangement in a room. People could share the space, and each work’s sound belonged to its surroundings rather than filling the whole gallery. I packaged other artists’ work for shows, acting as preparator and curator.

The original gallery stopped working when browsers dropped support for the experimental technologies it used. I’m rebuilding it for current browsers and mobile devices, while developing an interface that lets artists prepare their own works—something I previously did as both preparator and curator. The remake has had internal alpha testing; I haven’t held an event in it yet.

The Wetware rebuild gives an exhibition two ways to be encountered: a room to move through and a record to read. April's prototype separated spatial entry from archive access. I am testing how those forms support one another when a work is unavailable, unfinished or better approached through its documentation.

The gallery began in 2016; the original phase ran through 2020, and rebuilding began in 2025. The current edition remains a work in progress. Its room and records should make access understandable without allowing the interface to swallow the exhibited work.

The original video documents Find and Replace, Youth, Itme and Perfect.

Current prototype captured 27 September 2026, illustrating the spatial/archive direction introduced in April. Pending records and displayed cycle dates do not establish a completed exhibition.

November 2025 rebuilding note · Original gallery video · Wetware Gallery