Virtually Radiant

Available online October 13, 2022 – September 12, 2025
imca.uci.edu

With an aim to make its collection of California Impressionist artworks more accessible to audiences, Langson IMCA commissioned design studio Imaginary Places to create a digital installation that conveys the wonder of California Impressionism beyond the museum’s physical walls. The resulting “work-of-works,” titled Virtually Radiant, is a curated online experience featuring over 30 paintings that serve as inspiration to other artists, writers, and musicians. Images of the selected works are set into a stylized digital landscape resembling the California environments they depict. Clustered into virtual galleries, the digitized works are accessed via icons along a nature scape panorama that traverses from dawn to night. Links connect viewers to high resolution digital images, as well as background on each artist, time period, and other curatorial and contextual information. Visitors can scroll through the immersive landscape guided by their own curiosity.

Imaginary Places partners include Juan Diaz Bohorquez, a Berlin-based filmmaker and designer; Sherry Huss, an entrepreneurial community builder in Northern California; Itamar Kubovy, a culture and live events producer in New York City; Stefanie Sobelle, a critic, editor, writer, professor, and dramaturg from Los Angeles and based in Brooklyn; and Josef Szuecs, a maker, coder, programmer, engineer, and musician in Northern California.