RSMAD / AREMESArt, archives & spatial systems

SPATIAL
ARCHIVES

Cultural archives transformed into browser-native environments.

Open the same address on a phone, computer, or VR headset. No app store. No separate edition of the work. The archive becomes a place.

Enter the Work Discuss a Spatial Archive Four environments

Enter through a browser. Continue in a headset where WebXR is supported.

Sculptures of figures, buildings, faces, and abstract forms stand across a wide green field beneath a blue sky.
The RSMAD Sculpture Park / Ryan SeslowAn archive with a far side.

The archive is the architecture

Sculptures become a landscape.
Teaching becomes a building.
Browser art becomes a room.
Paintings become cities.

Ryan Seslow Art & Design brings the work, the archive, and the creative direction. AREMES brings archive intelligence, spatial systems, and browser-native delivery.

Enter the work

Three live environments / One documented build

The three live environments

These are not renderings of proposed installations. They are working environments with their own live URLs.

The painting city is presented as a documented build. Its public entry point is the build article.

Immersive entrances open in a new tab and load 3D assets. Loading time varies by device and connection. The build articles are available without entering 3D.

01 / Sculpture / Landscape

Live environment

The RSMAD Sculpture Park

WebXRQuest testedBrowser and mobile access

Enter the Environment (opens in a new tab)
An elevated view across the park toward the face of a blue-shirted bust, a building sculpture, white and dark figures, and abstract forms spread across the landscape.
RSMAD Sculpture Park / Looking across the field from the northwest.

Documented, destroyed, digital, and newly built sculptures become a monumental open landscape.

Drawings become objects. Photographs return lost sculptures to space. Scale is a deliberate artistic decision: the archive opens into a landscape, and every work has a far side.

Enter the Environment (opens in a new tab)Read the Build

Browser • Mobile • WebXR / Quest where supported

sculptures
37
triangles, approximately
1.41M
Architecture & build notes

The published build documents geometry simplification, Draco compression, instanced trees, and quality levels that respond to frame rate. Distance culling is coordinated with fog. Desktop rendering and Quest testing are treated as different performance conditions.

Three.js / WebXR / Draco / Adaptive quality / Instanced trees / Distance culling

02 / Teaching / NET-ART

Live environment

Nine Years, Fifteen Rooms, One Link

WebXRQuest testedBrowser and mobile access

Enter the Environment (opens in a new tab)
A deep view along the classroom central aisle, with long tables on both sides and artworks covering the walls and ceiling.
NET-ART / The teaching archive becomes an inhabitable building.

A public teaching archive becomes an inhabitable learning environment.

The teaching stays at the center. Fourteen long tables correspond to the MAKE index. Real instructions sit at reading height. Above them, Ryan's hand-selected works fill the walls. Every table is a door into another room.

Enter the Environment (opens in a new tab)Read the Build Explore MAKE

Browser • Mobile • WebXR / Quest where supported

rooms
15
selected works
814
sculptures
31
Architecture & build notes

The architecture expresses the subject. Gifs and Loops is circular. Collaborations is a five-pointed star. Paper and Light is a triangle, a prism. A Site of Your Own is a square. Assignments is a hexagon. The published account explicitly distinguishes Ryan's selected work from student work.

Three.js / WebXR / Spatial instructional text / Archive curation

How the NET-ART Rooms Are Built
A star-shaped teaching room with angular walls carrying artworks and readable instructions, two sculptures, and a NET-ART return sign.
Collaborations / The room takes the shape of its subject.
A diagonal view across the teaching room tables toward the central board, under a ceiling covered with artworks.
The classroom / Tables, writing, artwork, and paths through them.

03 / HTML / Moving Image

Live environment

GRAFFANIMATION

The Headset Is Just Another Computer

WebXRQuest testedBrowser access

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An eye-level diagonal view through GRAFFANIMATION, with colorful HTML grids on two walls, illustrated figures overhead, and a spray-can-cap floor receding into the room.
GRAFFANIMATION / HTML becomes architecture.

The file builds the room.

Early browser art keeps its motion, color, and unruly character. The original HTML determines the architecture. The work becomes walls, ceiling, and floor: preservation through reinterpretation.

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Browser • WebXR / Quest where supported

Architecture & build notes

The first documented gallery arranged 70 works in seven rooms around a hub. That development used proximity loading and adaptive animation, with teleport movement and snap turning. The article then describes rebuilding the architecture from the HTML itself. The current entrance opens the file-built version, with a main room and individual piece selectors. The seven-room ring is part of its development history.

HTML-derived architecture / WebXR / Responsive animation

04 / Painting / Architecture

Documented build

The Paintings Were Always Cities

Browser and Quest tested

An elevated view across a dense city of colorful curved and rectangular painted forms, repeating into a pale atmospheric horizon.
The Paintings Were Always Cities / Documented fifth iteration.

Twenty paintings become the architecture of a navigable world.

The shapes come from the canvases. The palette comes from the paint. Composition and repetition determine the city. The visual language of the work becomes spatial structure.

Read the Build

Documented browser and Quest testing

paintings
20
documented iterations
05
Architecture & build notes

Five iterations move from separated districts to overlapping forms, an endless field, and a sky that works inside the headset. Browser and Quest testing are documented in the build. A public experience address has not been verified; the article is the public entry point.

Three.js / WebXR / Painting-derived geometry

Six original abstract paintings with interlocking colorful shapes, displayed in two rows of three.
Source material / Paintings by Ryan Seslow.
A closer view above overlapping painted forms, with curved roofs and towers stretching toward the hazy horizon.
Inside the visual language / A lower view over the city.

One system.
Different transformations.

The material sets the terms

Sculpture documentation
A monumental park
A teaching archive
A learning environment
Early HTML & GIFs
Animated rooms
Paintings
Cities
Destroyed physical work
Spatial reconstruction
A long-running archive
A museum you can enter

What the system can do

A shared address.
A visual language.
A place to return.

Silent-first interaction is a design principle. The archive communicates through images, readable text, movement, and space.

Open in a browser

Browser-native delivery, a shared address across devices, and WebXR access where supported. No app-store requirement.

Let the material lead

Archive interpretation, spatial curation, and architecture shaped by the work. Responsive imagery and animation, with adaptive performance.

Build for visual communication

Silent-first experiences, written interpretation, and caption-ready communication can be part of the commission from the start.

Keep the work portable

Browser standards and reusable spatial assets support work beyond a single device. Hardware and presentation requirements are established for each environment.

Extend when the archive calls for it

Archive search, intelligent interpretation, and private or authenticated access can be scoped as custom extensions. These are options for future commissions, not features of every environment shown here.

Who this is for

Culture with
somewhere to go.

Start with the archive.
Find the right scale.

Three possible engagements

Each commission begins with the cultural material, the people who will encounter it, and the place it needs to live.

The deeper continuity

The medium changes.
The practice continues.

Technology is material. The work, the archive, and the decisions come first.

Browser / HTML / GRAFFANIMATION

A page was already a place.

Early browser experiments and animated graffiti become spaces without losing the language they began with.

A Decade in the Browser

Physical work / Reconstruction

What disappears can return.

Photographs of destroyed sculpture carry form forward. Paintings and sculptures cross into spatial work, keeping the original decisions in view.

Scrap Reality v.01 Two 3D Works

Studio / Spatial painting

The wall stops being the edge.

The VR studio experiments extend painting into architecture, continuing the environmental logic of the Merzbau through digital material.

VR Studio Transformation

RSMAD / RSOS / AREMES

The archive becomes a place.

RSMAD holds the artistic practice. RSOS provides underlying archive intelligence. AREMES carries the spatial and technical systems. NET-ART keeps the teaching public and connected to the work.

Enter RSMAD

A conversation about what is already there

YOUR ARCHIVE
MAY ALREADY
CONTAIN A PLACE.

AREMES works with existing cultural material to discover the environment already latent inside it.

Discuss a Spatial Archive