I would say that we are more in "VR Cubism" right now at least in the
public perception of VR, rather than "VR Dadaism", or at the other
end of the art history of this century, in "VR Hyperrealism" :-)
I really like the idea of associating our research on VR to the Art
movements, it gives us a new direction for though, definitely
different from the scientific approach.
To follow on this thread, I think that an interesting, and very
litteral research path around VR is actually Reality itself and it
variations. This direction is actually very close from Surrealism, in
that it questions its own medium in it foundations.
The few references I thought about when I thought about this
direction some time ago were Philip K Dick, Jose Luis Borges,
Faulkner, Ingmar Bergman, Abel Ferrara, Bacon (the painter), Jeff
Koons, Jacques Tati, and of course as references of references
Schoppenauer and Kant. Imagine a VR world, alla XXX, replace XXX by
one of the above... All these artists/writers have concentrated their
work, in meaning or in form, around the concept of "reality", its
consistency and its perception, three concepts that are central to
VR.
Food for thought..
Antoine