THE WORLD FROM MY WINDOW: ARS VIRTUA IN DOWDEN

Kliger Dinkin is Ars Virtua's first artist-in-residence in Second Life, chosen in an open proposal request by the real world arts group to create commissions of metaverse art based in Second Life.  His work in Dowden is a colorful and crystalline flood of imagery, words, and sensation, and he sent along a suitably rococo treatise to describe his creative process.  That and more staggeringly gorgeous images and video from Dinkin's Dowden exhibit after the break.

« Organizing light in the time and space of the projected image »
An in-world exhibition showing the work done during an eleven week "artist-in-residence" program at the Ars Virtua New Media Center in Second Life.  Direct teleport at this link.

"Real images from a virtual world.  Made from interactive hyper-spaces--images, ideograms, models and text-- filling the gallery, an «Image-Space» (rather than a space for images or a space with images). Images project space, space becomes image, resonating on its surface, through its envelope and beyond its physical reach, to project atmosphere. Avatars merge in image, emerge through image, losing themselves in an image, of art, only to reemerge through it. The colors, lights and forms, the tensions and compressions of the space's force, superpose to project «Image-Space» as its primary atmosphere and not as background noise.

"Building three machines, experimental devices fabricated by-and-for Second Life to read, write and learn from this synthetic environment. Measurement is knowledge, and we can gain some by extracting in-world information --objects, images, metadata-- decoding and understanding this world, and subsequently generating the spaces capable of representing this condition. Art made with materials that are in-and-of the metaverse.

"Teleports send avatars to distant Second Life territories to visit working project infrastructure, the spaces and machines designed to extract in-world data. This multi-sim installation confronts the five distant builds with the gallery exhibition, compelling avatars to pose the question, 'What is "real" in a virtual world?'

"This approach stands in direct contrast to most in-world projects that use Second Life as simply another node of a communication strategy. Instead, it capitalizes on virtual space's potential to become a unique representational, sensational medium. To this effect, it anticipates using synthetic environments (in general) and virtual space (in particular) as platforms capable of functioning as a highly accelerated cultural engine for the development of knowledge about space, time and materiality...

"Two in-world catalogs that show and explain the installation are freely available at the Ars Virtua New Media Center. The project was blogged at AVAIR. The Ars Virtua site is here."

There's also two YouTube videos of the site, here and here.

Disclosure: I was a sponsored speaker at a recent Boston event co-sponsored by Turbulence, also a co-sponsor of Ars Virtua.

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Comments

[arina]

i"m interior architecture student and I want to know more a bout virtual space.thanks