Manchester’s multimillion pound cultural space is being reimagined by international artists through a series of commissions from Manchester International Festival.
Influential avatar artist and curator, LaTurbo Avedon, has created a new work for Virtual Factory, Your Progress Will Be Saved. This has been built on an island in the gaming platform, Fortnite Creative.
Designed in the real world by Rem Koolhaas’ OMA architectural practice, it’s believed to be the first major cultural building to be recreated in Fortnite. It will be the first to be launched virtually, before it opens in real life.
Your Progress Will Be Saved will be based around mirrors, taking visitors on a constantly evolving journey through shifting spaces, across illuminated dance floors and into private booths, experimenting with and blurring the distinctions between what we call the real and the virtual worlds.
