The exhibition The Art Of Living in.adHD, by DeCarlo Maximus FitzGerald (or Reddee Hian), is a door not exactly to ADHD itself, but to a way of understanding the world, feeling it and expressing oneself under the influence of that mental condition. It opened on October 1st, in The 22 Art Space, in Bellisseria, and […]
Read More Creating art works from ADHDTwo simultaneous photo exhibitions dedicated to the sci-fi aesthetics in Second Life: one of them features Huckleberry Hax and the universe that he created for Stömol, the first full-length movie totally filmed in Second Life, and for its sequel, Waarheid, which he has been preparing now; the other one brings the amazing photographer and creator […]
Read More ‘Stömol’ creator Huckleberry Hax exhibits his new movie’s main character at The 22For the second part of this holiday season’s celebration in The 22 art space, the fabulous photographer, model and creator Wicca Merlin and I present to Second Life’s residents Electric Sheep, one of the two exhibitions dedicated to SL’s sci-fi and cyberpunk universe – the other one being Huckleberry Hax’s Waarheid: Truth Hunter – that […]
Read More Between dreams and nightmares: imagined futures in exhibition by Wicca Merlin and meDuet is an exhibition that combines pairs: two photographers, couples of images and geminate ideas. It features Evie and Dutch Ireman and runs from today, October 2nd, until December 11th at The 22 art space, in Bellisseria. Its final form was developed somewhat by chance, when Randy and I approached a number of artists with […]
Read More ‘Duet’: pairs of photos in exhibition at the 22Myra Wildmist started an interesting discussion on what virtual photography really is and if it is so different from, let’s say, real-world photography (since she refers at some point to Wikipedia, I’d notice that what she calls virtual photography is classified by the free online encyclopedia rather as in-game photography – but, yes, photography). The […]
Read More Screenshot or photograph? Does how you label it really matter?Cherry Manga’s art store in Adrenalin, Second Life, is itself an installation that integrates her different creations in a very clever way. There, one can find sculptures that were used in a variety of works by the artist, such as the Does not hold water chair, which appeared in State of mind (2020), or Nostalgie, […]
Read More Cherry Manga’s art store is itself a work of artDo tiny skyscrapers make sense? Well, that’s exactly what artist Gem Preiz has built in Second Life: small massive buildings which are not scale models, even if they are just virtual. Those wonders, forming a somewhat futuristic cityscape, can be seen in his installation Skyscrapers, which invites us to think of scales in the virtual […]
Read More Scaling down skyscrapers in order to build a big projectOne of the most interesting aspects of the Second Life birthday celebrations has been the community exhibitions, and checking the ones prepared for SL16B may become a fun time for visitors at the event. It’s particularly important, I’d say, because it reminds us of how the use of SL can be a creative one. After […]
Read More There’s still time to check the exhibitions at SL16B (and enjoy some pictures)When I made a list of six curious ways to die in Second Life, artist Eupalinos Ugajin suggested I could try an additional means of killing my avatar: by throwing the virtual me from a giant catapult in Avaloir, Eupalinos’s sim. So I did – and that was not the end of the road for […]
Read More Eupalinos, architect of an eccentric world“Here, in Second Life, a vast virtual canvas where we create what cannot be, what could be, what was and what might be again, I step inside the imaginations of people I’ve never met and whom I may have never even spoken to, understanding something of their inner worlds nonetheless. I am welcome in, I […]
Read More He stepped into other people’s imaginations and built his own powerful artworkIn the beginning of October, I received a message from Mireille Jenvieve-Woodford, inviting me to take part in The Mad Masquerade, a series of activities at Ce Soir Arts, in Second Life, from this Saturday, October 20, to November 20, to celebrate “the spooky season”. I felt honored to be offered a chance to contribute […]
Read More How a celebration of the spooky season became an opportunity to resist neofascismI’ve been recently invited to contribute with some pictures to Mix Tape, an exhibition at LEA 11 that opens today, Sept. 30, in Second Life, with a party at 12 pm SLT featuring DJ Kaj Juutilainen. The somewhat chaotic installation built by Souix for LEA translates music into a visual representation that sends visitors into […]
Read More Music made visual mobilizes even those who can’t hear itDancing With Spirits is an art installation by theda (or Theda Tammas) which is being hosted throughout August and September by Galleria Kakku, curated by my friend Pieni. It presents to the viewer an intriguing ball of different figures – alone, in pairs and trios – and one can join them to be part of the […]
Read More The spirit of dancingA few days ago, I received an email by a moderator of a Flickr group related to Art Box, a place in Second Life that I have already written about on this blog. The message was to let me know that a number of pictures I had added to their photo pool had been removed, […]
Read More A little bit of kindness could do us some goodThe new ArtSpace gallery has opened recently in Second Life and I took some time to visit its first exhibition and the surrounding sim where it is located: TejanoTech, kept by the University of Texas at San Antonio. Both the gallery and the sim actually fit each other and feel like a coherent environment, because […]
Read More ArtSpace and TejanoTech: against the tide, a university that still flourishes in SLThe second edition of Visions of Hope at Visions of Hope Gallery, in benefit of Relay For Life Of Second Life, is coming to an end: today, May 30, is the last day for the public to place bids and help us rasing funds to fight cancer; tomorrow, May 31, we’ll celebrate the success of […]
Read More Visions of Hope 2016: last chance to visit the exhibition and party with usFor the second year, Second Life residents will be able to join some great artists of the virtual world in the Visions of Hope project to raise funds in benefit of Relay For Life of SL – an initiative to help fighting cancer, increasing awareness and providing support to survivors and caretakers. Opening this saturday, […]
Read More Great SL artists gather to fight cancer – and you can join themI am happy to announce that I’ve been invited to contribute with a couple of photos to the exhibition that’s being organized by Ce Soir Arts to celebrate this year’s Valentine’s in Second Life. Called From The Heart, the exhibition opens on Sunday, Feb. 14 (of course!) – with a huge party that goes from 3PM […]
Read More Ce Soir Arts celebrates Valentine’s with an exhibition ‘From The Heart’ATTENTION: UPDATE on the party at the end of the text. The invitation, open to the whole Second Life community, to a celebration called Radio Days, on Saturday, November 21, at The Far Away, brings a good opportunity for me to share some thoughts on sims (or parts of sims) as art works. The event […]
Read More Will we meet far away? (or sims as art works)Mediamorphosis is a multisensory and interactive art installation by Djehuti-Anpu (display name), or Thoth Jantzen (user name), that has been in Second Life since 2013 and which, two years later, keeps being impressive for its spectacle of lights and music and for its immersive strength. Made of five more or less connected parts (or six, […]
Read More Immersive video art meets the virtual world
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