Collaborative roots laid the foundation for Meow Wolf’s distinctive style of immersive, maximalist environments that encourage audience participation. Our mission is to inspire creativity through art, exploration, and play so that imagination will transform our worlds.
Meow Wolf is one example of creating an imaginary space where different sorts of realities can predominate in our perception. It’s one more way of “getting one’s arms around” what VR means for our new forms of living, and our new relationships to space in the digital connected world.
Meow Wolf Philosophy:
While immersive exhibition experiences and interactive storytelling remain the flagship of Meow Wolf’s collective goals, you can also count community engagement, ethical investment, environmental stewardship and strengthening the local economy as key and sustained efforts in engaging a wider circle of talented people and organizations.
Meow Wolf is nothing if not ambitious; with goals of nothing less than transforming the way we live, it seems. OTOH, their actual achievements to date are extremely impressive, so who can say what else they can do.
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Immersive environments are a big push on Zoom…of late. Zoom needs to stay out in front of other media experiences such as Zuckerberg’s “Metaverse”.
Immersive environments are an attempt to bring to bear our imaginative capabilities, and the richness of possible media created screen spaces…to bring online connectivity closer to the richness of “in person” connectivity.
It’s early days, but there’s a likelyhood that invented space using AR/VR and AI, working with v. high bandwidth, can in some ways surpass what an “in person only” physical space can provide. That’s where the big rewards are yet to be mined.
Big Rewards in this case are those media creations that potentially remake both education and healthcare and bring top level versions of both to those currently left out and on the wrong side of the digital divide.
But there’s big rewards for increasing the effectiveness, and efficiency of education and healthcare for everyone. The future of media is ripe with latent capabilities…it’s a matter of how long it takes to get there, and who will control it.