Launched in Second Life last month during the holidays, the latest installation by acclaimed metaverse artist Bryn Oh is a parable of understanding expressed by robots:
The story is of a laboratory at night which sees a maintenance robot come out to gather up a tiny robot in a jar. Robots to me symbolize the mildly flawed or different in our society. The ignored or obsolete. Each night she comes out and they connect to each other with a cable and remain this way until just before the scientists, who have created them, return. In many of my stories such as this one, it is the machines, the outcasts or the overlooked who possess more humanity than those who have created them.
Click here to visit in person in Immersiva, Bryn's exhibition space in SL. As is usually the case with SL works by the Canadian government-funded artist, Bryn created a strange and gorgeous machinima in the space, this time accompanied by a poem:
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