Rebuilding Wetware Gallery
A portable exhibition room for the browser
Written 28 September 2026
In November I began rebuilding Wetware around one modest requirement: an artist should be able to place work in a browser room without rebuilding the room each time.
The lobby became the first test. A red carnation, a translucent object and the entry controls had to establish scale while making movement understandable. Loading, playback and exit needed to remain consistent when the exhibition changed.
I was trying to keep the gallery quiet enough to hold somebody else's work. A room could offer distance, proximity and shared presence, but those qualities had to serve the exhibited work. The first task was one durable place to enter and leave; the exhibition program was still being developed.

Lobby prototype with entry controls, November 2025.