Posted in virtual worlds, tagged 'Sound Art', Edo Autopoiesis, Edo Paulus, imagination, Second Life™, Trickster avatar, virtual worlds on April 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Second Life™ is a giant collaborative exercise where creative people make everything in the synthetic world. A great part of the magic is seeing all these different imaginative manifestations co-existing side by side.
Posted in art, virtual worlds, tagged Second Life, virtual worlds, art, Eric Joyner, robots, donuts, 'Robots and Donuts', Museum of Robots on April 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Eric Joyner’s robots have an endearingly mournful air. It is hard for a robot to smile and this exhibition shows how care worn a robot can be. Clearly they have many concerns, issues with anger management (see above) and feelings of despondency.
Posted in cyberloom, tagged YouTube, Virtual World Photography, Second Life™, 'Mystical Serenity a romantic isle', New SL viewer 1.20.0, Virtuals Worlds, Torley Linden on April 11, 2008 | 7 Comments »
‘Mystical Serenity a romantic isle’ is the perfect location to experiment with the Second Life 1.20.0 platform update. This romantic and peaceful island has lots of water, big skies and beautiful trees.
I took these first 1.20.0 photographs using advanced settings in the environmental editor (under World in the top menu bar).
Advanced sky settings set to [...]
Posted in education, virtual worlds, tagged Virtual World Photography, education, Distance Education, virtual worlds, Second Life™ on April 9, 2008 | No Comments »
The center of Deja Vu Volcano
Cyberloom has recently met a number of educators who express anxiety about the World Wide Web with its social networking sites and virtual worlds. They are particularly concerned by the stories they have heard about Second Life. This platform has many parallels with the early days of the internet, and [...]
Posted in virtual worlds, tagged Second Life, virtual worlds on April 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Cyberloom at the bottom of the ocean.
Wearing a free diving suit courtesy of the Abyss Museum of Ocean Science, Gun (54, 41, 81)
Acropolis Gardens in the Sea of Basiat Underwater Park
Ghostly fish at Mystic Beach, Rainforest Reef
Trying out a dance pole in deep sea diving gear. Very aerobic exercise! (This place was a ruin [...]
Posted in Web 2.0, art, cyberspace, tagged art, Blued Food, memes, Quadrapop Tree, Second Life at Hand, Second Life™, virtual roses on April 3, 2008 | No Comments »
Blued Food’s ‘genetica’ on show at Quadrapop Tree until April 14th
Memes propagate themselves and can move through a “culture” in a manner similar to the behavior of a virus. As a unit of cultural evolution, a meme in some ways resembles a gene. Richard Dawkins, in his book, The Selfish Gene, recounts how and why [...]
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