DiMoDA is proud to present its second exhibition, Morphḗ Presence curated by Helena Acosta and Eileen Isagon Skyers. This exhibition features a diverse collection of commissioned VR works from Miyö Van Stenis, Brenna Murphy, Theo Trian and Rosa Menkman. Morphḗ Presence will take place at Superchief Gallery in Brooklyn (NYC) September 9th, followed by a feature at VIA Pittsburgh (PA), Satellite Fair, Miami Beach (FL) and a featured exhibition at the RISD museum in Rhode Island starting in mid December. More dates TBA When we look at contemporary life, it is evident that our perception is often punctuated by technology–so frequently that we no longer distinguish between simulacra and material. The various devices we interface with give rise to the images, connections, and feelings that now comprise the phenomenological texture of our reality. These devices and software systems operate in discrete terms; to be precise, they operate in code. Beyond its literal numeric, keystroke value, code language also bears symbolic meaning. This language follows inherent patterns to manifest real shapes, motions, objects, and events–ergo, "reality". By definition, these tendencies are not actual, but virtual–e.g. not physically existing as such, but made by software to appear to do so. They represent potential. They represent something in essence, or effect, but not in fact. Despite the premise that reality may not be fully, or actually, represented by these technologies, virtual reality can influence direct experience, quite literally by influencing physical virtues or capabilities. Indeed, this is part of the origin of the term "virtual". Using various arrangements, interactions and sensory enactments, DiMoDA 2.0: Morphḗ Presence looks at the work of Brenna Murphy, Rosa Menkman,Theoklitos Trian and Miyo Van Stenis to indicate the power and failure of technology when attempting describe, or frame, reality. For more information please contact at: contact@digitalmuseumof.digital

FEBUARY 12–MARCH 31 2016 BY APPOINTMENT ONLY PRIVATE PREVIEW FEBRUARY 11 The Stolbun Collection is pleased to present the Chicago debut of DiMoDA, The Digital Museum of Digital Art. DiMoDA is the preeminent virtual institution devoted to Digital/ New Media Art. Visitors to the installation may visit DiMoDA's first four virtual reality solo exhibitions from artists Claudia Hart, Tim Berresheim, Jacolby Satterwhite and Aquanet 2001. Directors / Developers Alfredo Salazar-Caro and William Robertson first conceived of the DiMoDA in 2013 and launched the institution in November 2015 for the The Wrong(again) digital art biennale as an online Pavilion and IRL Embassy at Brooklyn’s Transfer Gallery. Visitors to The Stolbun Collection use an Oculus Rift Headset in conjunction with headphones and a game controller to access and navigate through DiMoDA. Exhibitions are accessed through portals in the museum atrium. Each artist was given complete control over their solo exhibition. A large LCD-screen allows others to follow along as the visitor explores the museum. DiMoDA is dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting and exhibiting Digital artworks from living New Media artists, while expanding the conscious experience of viewing Digital art in a Virtual space. The DiMoDA building is intended as a home for contemporary digital art and an incubator for new ideas, as well as an architectural contribution to the Internet’s virtual landscape.