At 6:00 p.m. on February 4, 2011, Maya Brush, a 'Homo Virtualis', a virtual model developed over the past three years by the German artist Kirsten Geisler. was born . Maya, a pure virtual sculpture entered at that moment the real world for the first time. Her virtual birth has been announced here. More importantly though, since her birth, Maya can be reached and communicated to via her facebook page:  Her real artistic journey just began, exactly when she entered the real world. Maya has already  bookings scheduled with fashion photographers Peter  Lindbergh and Karl Lagerfeld.

Here is a video of her virtual birth - I strongly believe though that her journey into the real world will be far more interesting than her actual birth!

Kirsten Geisler explores in her work the interface between the real and virtual world. Her central theme is how they merge and overlap. Since the mid-1990s she has been occupied with the representation of the three-dimensional body in virtual space and with the construction and manipulation of beauty. The body, its materiality and media coverage are her topic and inspiration.  Since the mid-1990s Geisler has been occupied with the representation of the three-dimensional body in a virtual space and with the construction and manipulation of beauty. In Geisler's works the virtual person is a symbol for the reflection of our dreams: young, beautiful, slender, normal, healthy, and of course, never aging. Thus Geisler contributes to the social debates over virtuality, digitization and the construction of identity. Geisler's works comment on the ideal of beauty and the delusions about beauty in contemporary society and the increasing digitization and virtualization of the world. www.kirstengeisler.com/ (Netherlands Media Art Institute)

The virtual birth was first shown at Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam (NMIk).
Her first exhibitions will take place 2011 at Kumu Art Museum, Kulturhauptstadt Tallinn (EST), in "gateways. Kunst und vernetzte Kultur" and Art Basel.