Posted in art, avatars, cyberloom, virtual worlds, tagged 'Grendel's Children', Alpha Auer, art, avatars, Chuck Hamilton, Darkle Sands, Flea Bussy, IBM, NPIRL Garden of Delights, Second Life, Social Presence Theory, universal language on June 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Dear Reader (as Charlotte Bronte would have said had she been a blogger) I have recently been taking a lot of ‘happy snaps’ in Second Life™. These photos record visits to the NPIRL ‘Garden of Delights’ and my avatars (by Flea Bussy) have posed like tourists on vacation for my virtual camera. This has been [...]
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Posted in art, avatars, cyberloom, virtual worlds, tagged 'Grendel's Children', art, avatars, Bronze Sigil Knight, Fantastic Art, Flea Bussy, NPIRL Garden of Delights, Second Life, virtual worlds on May 26, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Bronze Sigil Knight (avatar created by Flea Bussy ) standing on Kazuhiro Aridian’s installation looking across at ‘Heterotroph’ by Madcow Cosmos.
After mentioning Grendel’s Children in my earlier post ‘Avatar boutiques and virtual vestibules’ Flea Bussy of Grendel’s Children sent me some fabulous avatars! Now I understand why people say ‘Woot!’ in IM, the surprise [...]
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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.
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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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Posted in art, education, tagged Ars Virtua, art, art_education, avatars, education, hierachy of needs, Maslow, Second Life, self-actualization, UCSD on March 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Tarantula Hawker takes a very final bow before vanishing in a cloud of self-actualization.
Abraham Maslow’s ghost found its way into ‘needs’ an exhibit by students studying virtual environments at UCSD on March 18th, 2008. The exhibition raises intriguing questions about Maslow’s hierachy of needs (see Wikipedia) when applied to a virtual world.
Need for Belongingness
The [...]
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Posted in art, tagged Second Life, digital art, PleaseWakeMeUp Idler, art, virtual world, Iraq War casualties, 'Political is Personal', Sherpa Voyager, anti-war art installation on March 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Political is Personal is “a collaboration between PleaseWakeMeUp Idler and Sherpa Voyager that explores the personal nature of violence through the lens of the American invasion and occupation of Iraq.”
I teleport to Emily’s Nest in Cryphia and immediately feel a sense of foreboding. As the area ‘rezzes’ around me I see I am surrounded [...]
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Posted in art, tagged 'Art Talk!', art, Art Education, digital art, education, Feathers Boa, Goldsmiths London University, mash-ups in SL, PleaseWakeMeUp Idler, Second Life, virtual worlds on March 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Reactive art piece presented by Feathers Boa during Art Talk! at Mandel ‘BRAT’s and BREW’, 10 March 2008. Location: Artropolis (70, 101, 25)
This virtual world is a giant interactive art exhibit.
I first ventured into Second Life to look at the Goldsmith College of Art, 2007 degree show after reading about it on the [...]
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