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Work by individual artists where the work is written in VRML

Taylor Nuttall 

An artist and lecturer who uses VRML in his work: see, for example,  a virtual Lego world composed from the building blocks and Intimate Spaces - Tent Project.

Uirapuru

An artwork by Eduardo Kac that merges telepresence with virtual reality on the Internet. There is an archive of documentation of the project.

Leper

A site containing various artistic VRML worlds built on a Mac by Steve Guynup and others.

Noosphere

An unusual VRML world involving the use of 'memes'

Biotan's Creatures Gallery

This is a product of the Digital Biology Project and is a set of biologically inspired creatures in VRML (with more than a passing similarity to some of William Latham's earlier work).

La Grande Bleue

Celebrating Manessier's work in stained glass, Didier Debril has created a musical composition that was played live and projected onto the vault of the church. 

Virtual Harmonium

This has been around almost since VRML began but is still a masterpiece of simplicity and design.

Pagan sound world

Whilst this world might seem a little blobby, it is an alternative to reality and it makes use of the spacialised sound capabilities of VRML.

Slow Time

David Knoebel uses 3D text and spoken sound in a simple, but effective art piece.

VRML-Art

Probably the largest collection of VRML work by artists, designers, architects and students and was created for created for  VRML-Art 1999.  There are 54 works by artists from 24 different countries.  VRML-Art 2000 is being planned.

about.com

A list of sites where artists display their VRML work.

art-net

is an on-line art site that contains several VRML models.

Philadelphia Museum of Art

This is a VRML world which integrates into your browser window seamlessly. Whilst not all of the sculptures are actually 3D it is just a really good use of VRML. The gallery's theme is the series of sculptures Mlle Pogany by Brancusi.  (Note that there are a lot of small files, so they can take a few minutes to download.) 

The first sculpture in cyberspace

A piece of history. This sculpture, entitled Bust of D by Owen Rowley, was created in 1994.  There seems to be a problem with the units used, which means that navigation can be very slow. 

Sculpture and Computers

A project by Mike Mittelman of the Wesleyan University.

The WebMuseum

A museum of VRML galleries - contains a mixture of VRML, 2D graphics and text formats.

Minneapolis Sculpture Garden

The sculptures in this garden are actually 2D images imported when you click on the spheres that represent them, this is executed in a sophisticated manner and the interface is well thought out and looks great.

The Abulafia Gallery

This is the most traditional of the links included below as it is simply a mock up of an imaginary gallery space with some pictures placed in it.

Galeria Virtual 

This is a really interesting site which instead of replicating a real museum, actually creates a museum which takes advantage of all the things you can do with VRML interaction to challenge preconceptions about gallerys. Go to the viewpoints list if you find it difficult to navigate around the spaces.

Cio's Digital Gallery

This is a bit of an aside as the links above are concerned with using VRML as a medium, just like any other. This link is an example of a different approach, using VRML to build your own gallery space to hang examples of your work. VRML and its experimental nature is not what is important here, it has just been used as a convenient way of displaying work on the Internet. It is one of many examples on the web.