Recent dispatches from the outside world...
ARTnews: All the Web's a Stage
Aimee Weber on the cover of the prestigious art magazine, no less, as part of a larger article situating Second Life in a broader movement to employ Web 2.0 platforms in the art world. Aimee's portrait was part of an NYC gallery exhibit in which each image sold for a remarkable $10,000. Second Front's ostrich-laden parody of Miami's art scene also gets a brief mention. The central focus, however, is on noted "con-artists" Eva and Franco Mattes, who put on the 2006 avatar portrait show, and have also recreated several classic performance art pieces, some with a decided sexual edge. (In one recreation, unsurprisingly, their naked subversion gets subverted by a suddenly naked audience.) Second Life's art mavens are likely to be miffed at ARTnews' failure to note, say, ZeroG SkyDancers, Parsec, DynaFleur, RMB City, and the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse, among many others. But it's a start.
Hat tip: Patrick Lichty. Image credit: artnewsonline.com.
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