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※ Wetware Gallery Rebuild - WebVR Infrastructure

Field Log - in progress / studio note

Rebuilding a portable browser-native exhibition container

FIELD LOG2 min read

Context

November 2025

November has been dedicated to rebuilding Wetware Gallery from the ground up using a modern WebVR stack. The original iteration functioned as a proof of concept. This rebuild treats it as infrastructure.

The current version is built on Three.js with React Three Fiber, structured to support lightweight deployment and broad browser compatibility. The focus is not spectacle but portability: a modular exhibition container that artists can use without specialized hardware or proprietary platforms.

Wetware Gallery lobby view: minimalist virtual room with red carnation, floating translucent object, and entry UI controls

WIP lobby environment — threshold space with curated objects, ROOM/Entry controls visible.

Development Tracks

Development has centered on three parallel tracks:

  1. Spatial Architecture — Reworking the main entry environment as a threshold space rather than a neutral lobby. The entry room establishes scale, movement rhythm, and perceptual pacing before viewers encounter individual works. I am treating it as a curatorial gesture, not just a loading zone.

  2. Exhibition Container Design — Designing a repeatable scene structure that can host diverse media (video planes, volumetric objects, shader-driven forms, text, audio) without collapsing under technical complexity. The goal is a stable spatial grammar that artists can inhabit.

  3. Curatorial Framework — Drafting criteria for the first exhibition in the reopened platform. The working question: what kinds of practices meaningfully translate into spatialized browser-based environments? Not everything should. The platform should privilege work that benefits from relational scale, latency, proximity, and shared presence.

This rebuild is less about producing a single show and more about constructing an operating system for virtual exhibition. The challenge is restraint—keeping the stack lean, the architecture legible, and the experience durable enough to host others’ work without overwhelming it.

Wetware remains an experiment in institutional minimalism: a small, portable framework for showing research-driven digital work in shared space.

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