Rutopia is a Virtual Reality art project developed for the CAVE and the C-Wall VR systems. It describes an ideal garden, a fairy Park, which shows a unity of technology, man and nature. Its visual style is based on poetics and symbology from Russian fairy tales and folk art. The creative goal was to explore the aesthetics of virtual art in its relationship to the art of painting. In Rutopia trees communicate with the visitor of the park, and their growth depends on his proximity. The visitor can control the evolution of the trees as well as reverse their growth to see it backwards. In this yet fairy environment, rationalistic technology, mystery of nature and human presence are harmonized in a perfect balance. Rutopia shows this interactive virtual park as a sketch of a premature embodiment of this wonderful time and place. [ more information ]