Bonjour, and welcome to the fundraiser to save hangars liquides VR, the world's largest and longest running cyberpunk city :

(The Guardian - 2014)

(Isabelle Cheren - Machinima - 2019)

By donating you will help hangars liquides, the avant-garde collective, to sustain their pioneering and ongoing efforts to create new forms of electronic arts, since 1998.

In this very case, the largest and longest running cyberpunk city in the world.

(Suspended Gardens and Temple at cell simulator - hangars liquides east)

Hangars Liquides started to create the city of the same name on the virtual world called Second Life in 2007, the entire visual content is crafted in 3D, by artist Djehan Kidd, all the textures are handpainted. The sound design has been entirely created for the city by Laurent Mialon, composer and founder of Hangars Liquides. We proudly represent the community of the Original Content Creators for we have built the sole original content cyberpunk city on the grid.

(Panoramic view of a part of hangars liquides' downtown)

(Inside the Space Cocoons conapts of hangars liquides)

(Wireframe image of vertex manipulation work for the creation of Original Content at hangars liquides)

Since 1998, our work has been internationaly acknowledged by curators, museums, institutions, PhDs, art critics, researchers, universities including the MIT, we gave a conference at the Apple headquarters in Paris in front of the core developers. Oprah Winfrey posed in front of the city on the cover art of the movie LIFE 2.0 (Directed by MIT Knight Jason Spingarn Koff) of which rights she acquired for her network, and lately William Gibson relayed the information that the city was closing soon https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2019/07/hangars-liqui..., we thank them all greatly.

(Inside one of the immersive cyberpunk appartments at hangars liquides - 2015)

- THE MEANING OF THE ART WORK -

Hangars Liquides is a work evolving around our dystopian reality.

Throughout the city you will find illustrations and reminders of our dystopian reality. Historical facts that led us to where we stand now. 911, Tien An Men, Slavery, WW2 memorials, and so on, everything that highlights how humans are able to hate one another, can be displayed in the city. I want to push people so they have no choice but remember these things, for we all live in a consumerist environment, both online and offline : Pier Paolo Pasolini said that "consumerism spreads faster than fascism, so much we didn't see it come", indeed, what are we able to see of this world when we are too self absorbed about ourselves only, what happened to Narcissus. I think that this is what consumerism does to us, like a sedative drug, if we are blinded so much we wont see anything come. This is why I am part of a non profit organization, as an artist, because I intend to use online platforms to spread a message to the people, through art, in this case, the message is to open our eyes on our present oppressive dystopia, and even if we feel unable to act or do anything to change the world, at least we can try to come up clean in the act of intellectual honesty that consists into looking at ourselves for what we are, the city is a mirror of this.

Djehan Kidd

Gallery

(view on central tower from hangars liquides north conapts - 2019)

(view on hangars liquides north from central simulator - 2019)

(hangars liquides south and cell-hangars liquides west simulators - 2019)

(China - Hangars Liquides East - Chungking Mansions inspired aerial architecture - 2019)

(hangars liquides boulevard - snowcrash incorporated - 2019)

(hangars liquides south - brutalism - 2019)

(aerial - communication tower inspired by Trbovlje in Slovenia - 2019)

(hangars liquides boulevard - snowcrash incorporated - central tower arrivals - 2019)

(hangars liquides south - 2019)

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The composer of the city's sound design of the city is currently exhibiting Sound art at the Royal College of Arts in London for the exhibition celebrating the 50th birthday of the pioneering Cybernetic Serendipity Exhibition.

Our Augmented Reality works have been selected by world reknown curator Massimiliano Gioni at the 55th Venice Biennale as official collateral event in 2013.

We are also preparing the Venice Biennale in 2021 to present our Virtual Reality art.

As part of our educationnal non profit effort, for 8 years Hangars Liquides on SL collaborated through the prestigious China Art Academy in Hangzhou with Chinese New Media artist Ligong Shen.

We wrote the Flashcore Manifesto, when Hangars Liquides brought Flashcore, a new genre of music to life, recognized worldwide by the audio-community and the public.

We have collaborated with countless artists, we have always offered free space at hangars liquides for content creators all of kind.

The city was used by legendary techno producers such as Cari Lekebusch, Robert Leiner or The Advent, to promote their work.

(Cari Lekebusch for Hybrid Production - Music by the Advent - 2012)

In the past , hangars liquides' founder who has entirely sound designed the city, has been commissioned by The International Olympic Commitee, The NBA, the State of Canada, Samsung, JVC, KIA, le Futuroscope, Singapore Airlines, Nestlé and much more

In 2016 we were offered to exhibit the virtual city of Hangars Liquides at the Fluxus Museum, Malpartida de Caceres, in Spain.Unfortunately due to the fact that the art work is centralized on Linden Lab's servers and not on independant servers, according to the curator's request, it was made impossible.

- THE COST OF THE SERVERS -

Hangars Liquides is a work of art that's deployed on the AGNI grid, this grid is hosted on servers owned by Linden Lab, the groundbreaking company that invented Second Life.It is currently impossible for the artists to get a private copy of the entire composition forming Hangars Liquides VR city to preserve it, due to the immense scale of the work and many other factors, the only way to save our artwork from destruction is to pay for the servers to keep running, our next due payment is on august 1st 2019.

If not paid, the art work will be destroyed.

One year of hosting on the servers for the entire city, which is 5 regions, will costs €6000.

Keep in mind that we are a French officialy recognized Cultural Non Profit Organization (501 C), and that depending on your country's legislation, it may be legally possible to deduct your donations from your taxes by informing your local tax office of your donation.

The legal status of our non profit organisation is to "Create, promote and diffuse any type of art".

Please donate and come immerse yourself in hangars liquides here https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hangars%20Liquides/126/131/2227

Thank you for supporting the avant-garde, electronic arts and culture.

Djehan Kidd - Mixed Reality Artist - builder of the city of Hangars Liquides

On behalf of hangars liquides - avant-garde collective 

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