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April 15 -April 18

Opening Reception April 15, 7pm EST

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Art Gate International 2021

Art Gate is pleased to announce their 2nd annual global art fair in virtual reality, Art Gate International 2021. It will take place this April 15th to 18th, 2021 in virtual reality.

Exhibitors from North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia are curating their galleries and hosting social art events in virtual reality during Art Gate International 2021. Erin Loree, Dr. Piloto Obdulio, Jai Mitchell are among the contemporary artists on exhibition. Masters such as Cindy Sherman, Pablo Picasso, Louise Nevelson, Andy Warhol, and many other artists in between can be found during Art Gate International 2021.

All the exhibitions are open to the public for free. In its second year Art Gate International has established itself as a one-of-a-kind destination for the best in modern and contemporary art, highlighting a vibrant international arts community, and bringing together the world’s collector base and thousands of international VR visitors. Visitors from around the world join the social events hosted by Art Gate through their VR headsets, phones, and laptops. Since Art Gate was founded in 2019, over 35,000 people from across 6 continents have visited the galleries exhibiting in the platform.

Today, Art Gate has the fastest growing arts community in virtual reality. The first edition of the art fair in VR took place in 2020 and saw record-breaking visitors during the Covid-19 pandemic. This second edition of Art Gate International is sure to surpass the attendance of the 2020 art fair.

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AGI 2021 is open 24/7, and free.

To join an event, open Art Gate on your laptop (PC & Mac) or VR headset. Meet in the lobby 10min prior to the event time. If you don’t have Art Gate yet, download the app.
See you in the Metaverse!

Don’t forget to update your Art Gate app. by downloading a new PC/Mac version, or navigating to the Oculus AppLab from your VR headset. Without the newest update, you will be not able to see the new features

Headsets: ArtGate VR is fully functioning for the Oculus Quest, and Quest 2. Download a ArtGate from the Oculus AppLab, and all future updates will occur automatically.

Computers: If you already have Art Gate on your PC or Mac, please delete the applicationdownload and install the app again.


Programming

  • 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm (EST) | EXHIBITION TOUR
    Maite Baron, Director of Baron Grafton Arthouse
  • 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm (EST) | EXHIBITION TOUR
    Sebastian Cuartas, Director of Artem + Scientia Gallery
  • 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm (EST) | PANEL DISCUSSION #1 – XR FOR BUILDING MORE CONSCIOUS COMMUNITIES & EQUITABLE FUTURES
    LMichelle, CEO of LMichelle Media
    David Plant, Director of Trinity Square Video
    Will Roberts, Founder and Creative Director at Augmented Pictures

            

  • 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm (EST) | EXHIBITION TOUR
    Danielle Festa, Director of Festa Collection
  • 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm (EST) | EXHIBITION TOUR
    – Irina Cumberland, Director of Universe in Water
  • 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm (EST) | BEEPLE EXHIBITION TOUR
    Ignazio Colt Nicastro, Director IC contemporary 
       
  • 6:30 pm – 7:00 pm (EST) | EXHIBITION TOUR
    Leo Krukowski, visual artist
  • 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm (EST) | EXHIBITION TOUR
    Darcy Gerbarg, digital artist
  • 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm (EST) | EXHIBITION TOUR
    Ignazio Colt Nicastro, Director IC contemporary 
       
  • 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm (EST) | PANEL DISCUSSION #2 – ART IN TIME OF UPROAR
    Jacobo Garcia Gil, Director of Divide By Zero Collection
    Denise Tsui, Managing Editor, Cobo Social 
    Cristian Contini, Co-Founder and Director of Cris Contini Contemporary
    Graeme Luey, Director Hashtag Gallery
              
  • 8:30 pm – 10:00 pm (EST) | PRIVATE COLLECTION TOUR
    Jacobo Garcia Gill, Director of Divide By Zero Collection
       
  • 6:00 am – 7:00 am (EST) | EXHIBITION TOUR
    Maite Baron, Director of Baron Grafton Arthouse
  • 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm (EST) | ARTIST TALK
    Maite Baron, London-based Artist, at Baron Grafton Arthouse
    Keith Grafton, London-based Artist, at Baron Grafton Arthouse
       
  • 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm (EST) | PANEL DISCUSSION #3 – CONVERSATION
    Ali Jay, Director Ali Jay Art Consultancy
    Jai Mitchell, artist
    Chase Chandler,  composer/vocalist
           
  • 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm (EST) | EXHIBITION TOUR
    – Ali Jay, Director Ali Jay Art Consultancy
       
  • 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm (EST) | YORK UNIVERSITY EXHIBITION TOUR
    Daniel Dyboski-Bryant, Educators in VR
    – 4th year undergraduate students will lead the tour
    York University   
  • 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm (EST) | PANEL DISCUSSION #4 – INSTITUTIONS IN VR
    Sarah Bay Cheng, Dean, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design, York University
    Georgiana Uhlyarik, Fredrik S. Eaton Curator, Canadian Art, and co-lead of the Indigenous + Canadian Art Department, Art Gallery of Ontario
    Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, Kalaalea (Greenlandic Inuk) performance artist, poet, actor, storyteller and writer base in Iqaluit, Nunavut
           
  • 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm (EST) | ARTIST TALK
    Sculptsy, visual artist
  • 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm (EST) | EXHIBITION TOUR
    SUK, visual artist
  • 11:00 am – 12:00 pm (EST) | EXHIBITION TOUR
    Artémis Herber, visual artist
        
  • 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (EST) | EXHIBITION TOUR
    Miriam Arbus, Director of Sky Fine Foods
        
  • 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm (EST) | EXHIBITION TOUR
    Max Locrian, visual artist

  • 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm (EST) | EXHIBITION TOUR
    Sylvain Landry, Co-Director of Thompson Landry Gallery
     
  • 3:00- 4:00pm (EST) | PANEL DISCUSSION #5 –ART FAIRS IN VR
    Graeme Luey, Director Hashtag Gallery
    Carmel Garvez, Marketing and Communication Lead
    Daniel St-Amant, artist
           
  • 5:00- 6:00pm (EST) | PANEL DISCUSSION #6 –CTO FIRESIDE CHAT
    Justin O’Heir, CTO, Art Gate VR
    Daniel Doubrovkine, Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS), former CTO at Artsy, has recently begun making NFTs
    Joel Sadler, VR Technologist | Founder | MIT & Stanford Engineer | XR Product Specialist
    Art Gate CTO Justin O'Heir Headshot Team       
  • 6:00- 6:30pm (EST) | CLOSING REMARKS
    Brendon McNaughton, CEO of Art Gate VR
        

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