Bettina Tizzy has a perceptive and fascinating interview with AM Radio, the prolific metaverse artist who was recently profiled in New York Times magazine, and whose latest work in IDIA Laboratories is among this week's most photographed installations. In poignant contrast to the apocalyptic, cyberpunk cities bristling across the world of Second Life, Mr. Radio is famous for creating tableaus that evoke bygone eras and obsolete technology. (A Jacques Louis David painting sitting in a forest glade, say, or a rural road entered through a magic door.) What drives him to choose this as his theme?
"Sunlight, for our generation," he tells Bettina, "is something seen through Plexiglass windows, and my art is a reaction against that... an attempt to tear down the fakery, all that plastic in impossible colors, and awful rugs, and terrible media, like television... And now, here I am in a virtual world, trying to create the organic." You can also hear this told directly from AM Radio's lips, in this groundbreaking Arthole podcast matching metaverse artists to the music that inspires them.
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