Vibrancy as Praxis: Creative Presence as an Act of Refusal
On March 25, the XR Women Museum opens Vibrancy as Praxis, a virtual XR exhibition hosted on Frame (web-based XR platform). Bringing together sixteen artists working across digital, immersive, and experimental media, the exhibition explores vibrancy not as aesthetic brightness, but as a deliberate and ongoing practice of creative presence.
To be vibrant is to refuse to disappear.
In many creative fields—particularly those shaped by rapidly evolving technologies such as XR and AI—artists are continually navigating questions of visibility, authorship, and voice. Vibrancy as Praxis approaches these questions through the lens of lived artistic practice. The works gathered in the exhibition reflect acts of reclamation, self-definition, and persistence. They demonstrate how showing up fully in one's creative life can itself be a form of resistance.
Rather than presenting vibrancy as a singular style or visual language, the exhibition frames it as a method—an approach to making and living creatively. Each artist engages this idea differently: through storytelling, digital environments, speculative imagery, or immersive experience. Together, the works create a constellation of practices that affirm the importance of creative autonomy and self-determination.
The exhibition also reflects the broader mission of the XR Women Museum: to create space for women working in immersive and emerging technologies to share their work, expand their networks, and contribute to the evolving landscape of digital art and XR culture. As immersive platforms continue to reshape how art is experienced and shared, these artists demonstrate how technology can become a site of expression, community, and experimentation.
Visitors will be able to enter the exhibition virtually and move through the works together, experiencing them in a shared digital space. The opening event includes a live guided tour with participating artists, offering audiences an opportunity to hear directly from the creators about their processes, inspirations, and approaches to vibrancy as a creative principle.
The artists featured in Vibrancy as Praxis are:
Akilah Martinez
Yanna Casey
Leah Coe
Charlene Nichols
Anatola Araba
Ines Said
Genevieve Guillaume
Sara Tink Mapelli
Naima Karim
Vanessa Nawka
Alexis Zerafa
Lorna Okeng
Dina Khalil
Dot Cannon
Kat Moon
Ned Shoaei
Together, their work reflects a powerful shared insight: creative presence is not guaranteed. It must be cultivated, defended, and practiced.
In this way, vibrancy becomes more than a visual quality. It becomes a stance.
Vibrancy as Praxis invites audiences to step inside an immersive space where artists insist on their voices, their visions, and their continued presence within the evolving worlds of art and technology.
The exhibition opens September 25 and will be accessible online through the XR Women Museum and is curated by Paige Dansinger.
