EXPERIENCING THE VIRTUAL OBJECT This art form represents a new genre in the world of cyber-art.  The ultimate goal is an exploration of the object photographically via the possibilities unique to virtual space. Our images result from a combination of  two specific art forms - sculpture and photography - accomplished through the cyber-medium.  Using the programs of contemporary animation we are building 3D models buchen/goodwin, tony buhen, jeralyn goodwin,cyber art,cyber medium,rhino3D,virtual sculpture,virtual objects,virtual art,virtual photographyand their environments for the express purpose of photographing them.  However, it is the inanimate possibilities of these models, not their animation, that is the focus of this work.  As stills or as video, the point of departure is always fixed form - the arrested movement that belongs to sculpture.