When I visited the inflatable white structure which comprised this
element of the China Pavilion, I observed that only a handful of
people were using the computers provided to interface withe SL
environment. The majority, including myself, were more interested in
lounging, resting weary feet and cooling down in this refrigerated
air-conditioned space, on a swelteringly hot late afternoon, after
long hours of traversing the Arsenale. Literally it was a 'chill-out'
room.
Chris
On 15 Jun 2007, at 08:15, _manu Luksch wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> As someone who refused so far to use up time of real life in order
> to invest
> it into second life, I do wonder why artists would kind of
> 'upgrade' that
> virtual playground (sl) by placing ( uncritical) arts pieces there.
> Somewhat
> reminiscent of the groundwork artists do before regeneration sharks
> take
> over urban spaces (but in this case I would say it's the unintended
> side-effect of artistic activity in such neighborhoods.)
> In eno's case, taking a piece from a gallery to a virtual space, I
> think it
> removes the work even more so from all those potential viewers, who
> haven't
> been part of the information revolution yet and are effortlessly
> overlooked
> while living in the gap the digital divide keeps creating...
>
> Just a thought to provoke two questions:
> If we invest time&energy into sl, does it really boomerang back in a
> relevant way to stimulate real life? Is it important to show ones
> art to the
> 'biggest' number of audiences or is it meaningful to address
> certain groups
> by making an effort...?
> manu
>
>
>
>
>> this seems interesting and related to that emerging discussion
>
> (posted today
>> at WDL mailing list by Jeremy Hunsinger )
>
> GB
>
> Brian Eno's 77 Million
>> Paintings is a generative visual artwork,
> composed of many overlaid images
>> forming a "slow-changing light
> painting." You can see a lesser demo version on
>> the official site. On
> June 29th, 77 Mil will open in Second Life and real
>> life
> simultaneously, to be seen via streaming video and in-world through
>> a
> recreated version of the work by Angrybeth Shortbread.
>
> Eno was moved by a
>> desire to get his visual installation work out of
> the gallery, where few can
>> see it, to a larger audience. (As someone
> who's studied his work, I would
>> suspect that his thought process went
> something like: Hmm¡Kpeople have great
>> big gorgeous HD monitors and
> TVs now¡Kmaybe I should dust off the old
>> screensaver idea¡K) Head to
> blueair.tv and longnow.org for SL coordinates and
>> more info. Here's
> teh press release:
>
> The Long Now Foundation, a San Francisco
>> non profit dedicated to
> fostering long-term responsibility, is pleased to
>> announce the Second
> Life premiere of Brian Eno's 77 Million Paintings, in
>> partnership
> with metaverse services company blueair.tv.
>
> The work will be both
>> streamed via video at select locations inside
> Second Life, while a rendition
>> of 77 Million Paintings has been
> created by blueair.tv creative partner
>> Annabeth Robinson, known
> virtually as AngryBeth Shortbread.
>
> Two evenings,
>> June 29th and 30th, are open to the general public at
> multiple venues across
>> Second Life, with the largest public area
> provided by Joi Ito (Kula Sims). The
>> final night, July 1st, is a
> private event that will be held in appreciation
>> for Long Now members
> worldwide ( members.longnow.org) and hosted on the Leeds
>> College of
> Art and Design's Digital Media Sim. Members of The Long
>> Now
> Foundation staff and board will also be visiting the Second Life
>> sims
> throughout the weekend and during the member event on Sunday
>> evening.
>
> The North American premiere will be hosted by The Long Now
>> Foundation
> at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Mr.
>> Eno
> hopes to be in San Francisco for the event.
>
> Questions regarding the
>> Second Life opening, sponsorship of the
> event, Second Life-based artwork and
>> blueair.tv itself should be
> directed to Bryan Campen at 312.799.1329 or via
>> email at
> blueair.tvATgmail.com <http://blueair.tvatgmail.com/>. Any questions
>> or
> requests for interviews
> regarding the artist, installation and membership
>> to The Long Now
> Foundation should be directed to Danielle Engelman at
>> 415.561.6582 or
> via email at danielleATlongnow.org.
>
>
> 2007/6/14, dom/
>> <[log in to unmask]>:
>>
>> Sarah, Patrick and all,
>>
>> about the China Tracy
>> Pavilion: I've not seen the RL installation, but
>> the one in SL seems nothing
>> special: an aerial architecture where you
>> can relax and chat with other
>> avatars. The press release (see below)
>> describes it as a "platform for
>> dialogue and exchange open to everyone":
>> bat that's not a description of the
>> web, or of SL as a whole? From the
>> author of Cosplayers I was expecting
>> something more...
>>
>> On the solid ground, there is a huge architecture full
>> of water,
>> gondolas, chairs and balloons where you can sit down. And,
>> obviously,
>> there are San Marco's lions everywhere. In the end, it's just
>> another
>> big corporation colonizing Second Life...
>>
>>> would you see these
>> 'synthetic performances' as they call them (or
>>> reiterations as you call
>> them?) as 'native works'? in just a technical
>>> or also theoretical sense?
>> what about reiterations of
>>> exhibitions/events?
>>
>> They are native - I
>> think - because they question the space and the body
>> in a place where these
>> words have a completely different meaning. What
>> does it mean shooting
>> someone, having sex, touch someone's boobs or
>> masturbating in a place where
>> your body - your sacred body - is made of
>> pixels? What does it means to fill
>> up the SL environment of 7.000 oacks?
>> It's ecology (as in Beuys), pollution
>> or viral marketing?
>>
>> But I let the answer to Patrick, he will definitely
>> answer better than
>> me ;-)
>>
>> bests,
>> domenico
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> *****************************************
>> Venice Biennale 2007 National
>> Participation:
>> PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
>>
>> *****************************************
>> An on Line & off Line Art Project:
>> CHINA TRACY PAVILION
>> China Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennale 2007
>> Inc SL & RL
>> Exhibition, SL Video and Research.
>>
>> *****************************************
>> The Concept of China Pavilion:
>> EVERYDAY MIRACLES
>> Commissioner: China Arts & Entertainment Group.
>> Curator:
>> Hou Hanru ( U.S.)
>> http://www.labiennale.org/en/art
>>
>> *****************************************
>> SL Artist: CHINA TRACY (AKA RL:
>> Cao Fei)
>> www.alternativearchive.com/chinatracy
>> CHINA TRACY (AKA RL: Cao
>> Fei) is one of the four woman artists (Shen
>> Yuan, Yin Xiuzhen, Kan Xuan)
>> participated in the China Pavilion, 52nd
>> Venice Biennale 2007
>>
>>
>> ===1.
>> TIME====
>> Exhibition Last for 6 Months¡G10 June - 21 November 2007
>> Press
>> Conference and Opening Party: 6 June
>> 6-9 June: Private view for Press
>> 10
>> June ¡V 21 November: For Public
>>
>> ===2. VENUE====
>> The Real Life China Tracy
>> Pavilion: Virgin Gardens, Arsenale, Venice
>> The Second Life China Tracy
>> Pavilion: China Tracy Pavilion, Parioli
>> (181, 201, 64)
>> The Second Life
>> Exhibition Space: Parioli Museum. Parioli Roma Italy,
>> Parioli (225, 217,
>> 40)
>>
>> ===3. PRESS CONFERENCE ====
>> June 7th afternoon 2pm, Parioli Museum,
>> Second Life.
>> Landmark: Parioli Roma Italy, Parioli (225, 217, 40)
>> Sponsor
>> : Virtual Italian Parks
>>
>> About China Tracy Pavilion
>> (China Tracy's Blog:
>> www.alternativearchive.com/chinatracy)
>>
>> China Tracy (AKA RL: Cao Fei), born
>> in Guangdong, China in 1978, is the
>> youngest but the most versatile in the
>> group. Working with video,
>> photography, performance, experimental theatre,
>> documentary and
>> fictional films, writing and other media, she vividly
>> express the
>> intense experiences of a young generation of Chinese urban
>> youth
>> navigating the wave of modernisation, urbanisation and
>> globalisation.
>> With an incredibly fresh but vigilant sense of humour, she
>> examines and
>> makes visible the very realities and dreams of this generation
>> in
>> various contexts from work to play, from suffering to happiness.
>> Today,
>>
>> she garners a great deal of admiration from the international
>> professionals
>> in the art world. She has been presented in Venice
>> Biennale 2003, 2nd
>> Guangzhou Triennial and Sydney Biennale 2006.
>>
>> Thousands of youngsters are
>> deeply addicted to the virtual world created
>> on the internet. The immensely
>> popular online game "Second Life" (
>> HYPERLINK "http://www.secondlife.com"
>> www.secondlife.com) provides them
>> with a "3-D virtual world entirely built
>> and owned by its residents". It
>> offers "a truly collaborative, immersive and
>> open-ended entertainment
>> experience, where together people create and
>> inhabit a virtual world of
>> their own design." In this new world, all people
>> are the nation's
>> "inhabitants", there are no "countries" or "regions", but
>> only a digital
>> world generated by imagination and creativity. Naming her
>> avatar China
>> Tracy, Cao Fei is building up an on-line project for the
>> Chinese
>> Pavilion to carry out an adventure into this virtual world that is
>>
>> exerting crucial influence on our perception of the real and thus
>>
>> considerably modifying our social relationships. Creating a China
>> Tracy
>>
>> Pavilion on the Second Life, Cao Fei will construct a platform for
>> dialogue
>> and exchange open to everyone. Venturing into this imminent
>> future, this
>> project will definitely bring the Chinese Pavilion itself
>> to a much more
>> global perspective.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Domenico Quaranta
>>
>> mob. +39 340 2392478
>>
>> email. [log in to unmask]
>> home. vicolo San Giorgio 18 - 25122 brescia (BS)
>>
>> web. http://www.domenicoquaranta.net/
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Sometimes it's better to be
>> sincerely false instead of being falsely true.
> [Eva e Franco Mattes a.k.a.
>> 0100101110101101.ORG]
>
>
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>
> --
> Sometimes it's better to be sincerely
>> false instead of being falsely true.
> [Eva e Franco Mattes a.k.a.
>> 0100101110101101.ORG]
>
>
> me: www.desvirtual.com
> myself: www.noema.art.br
> you:
>> http://netart.incubadora.fapesp.br/
> everybody: http://del.icio.us/desvirtual
>> +
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>
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