Issue 28 11.20.13
Virtual Worlds Art – The Avant Garden
Are You There?
People sometimes ask me what I do. “I, ahhh….” “Virtual Interventionist” doesn’t fly in most circles around here. People don’t take too kindly to “New Media” artist, either. Recently I settled on “performance artist”. It’s just easier. It all began innocently enough. I used to be in theatre. Standing on a stage, surrounded by set […]
Art in OpenSim…
by Thirza Ember for SWITCH magazine For the best part of a decade, Linden Labs have provided a wonderful platform where people can create, buy, sell, relax, interact, and express themselves virtually. While some Second Life Residents joined the grid with the express idea of using it as a workplace and marketplace, the vast majority […]
Painting Data: When Art Goes Virtual
Oberon Onmura If we consider an artist as fundamentally an agent of creation, the question then arises “creation of what?” And when the artist is creating within a virtual environment, that “what” begs additional discussion. In my view, an artist takes what is available from the surrounding environment, manipulates it physically or conceptually, and presents the result to […]