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=== Must See This Month: Seifert
Surface
Seifert Surface is among the most significant primary artists in the Second Life®
virtual world, and if you have not
experienced his work, this exhibition is required viewing.
Many of the sculptures that have been reviewed here during the past two
years are in the show, along with excellent signage that describes the
mathematical formulation of each work. In order to help our readers keep up with the latest developments, we have added a link to the RSS feed at the top of this home page. We are now in our third year of the SLART® magazine website, and as part of our free readers' service program will be adding art historical content from the 1977 SLART monograph on The Second Life® Art World to the website. Links to these, and to other content from the past two years, will be posted on the blog so you will get notices in the RSS feed. This is a change in the function of the blog, which was previously used for editorial commentary, notices, and readers' responses.
SLART®
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ALMANAC The growth
rate of art galleries in the Second Life®
world recovered in December, following a November, 2008 decline, according
to Sasun
Steinbeck, creator of the Art Gallery Owners Group. As the chart above
makes graphically clear, the number of confirmed galleries stayed near 400
from the end of 2007 until May, 2008. Growth resumed and crossed the
500 mark in September. After of November 1 the trend reversed. click here for the Art Gallery Map === SLART®
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=== The SLART
in-world book Great features: click the inside of the cover and a menu appears with the contents. You can go directly to an article without turning pages, or close the book. You can also click on the edge when reading a page to bring up this menu. On the last pages there are hyperlinks that will open this website for current reviews and news. The beautifully printed archival paper limited edition SLART® publication is available. Click here === SLART® BUSINESS Following
the disappearance of Zero Point [read
the article], we have been looking into how residents of the
Second Life virtual world can protect their assets. click
here to read ===== Read about SLART® products and services in the Media STEP Inside
Design, March-April 2008, Vol. 24 No. 2 |
Gwen
Carillon
The works by Gwen Carillon in the Aho Museum Sculpture Garden glow and fade, twist and turn. The notecard dispensed from the signage describes the exhibition as "eye candy," and the piece at the right edge above is titled Dime Store Candy. The work is not as superficial as that nomenclature suggests, and it bears a similar relationship to candy that Wayne Thiebaud's work does to pastry. Gracie
Kendal
Although most of the works in the current Aho Museum exhibition were created within the virtual world, these works by Artropolis resident Gracie Kendal (Kristine Schomaker) were painted in the real world with traditional media and the images imported. The relative size was adjusted to create the illusion of a large-scale installation. Several of the images appear to be maps of the imagination, or pictures of a new planet from outer space, with amorphous boundaries of land and water suggested by the blue and green areas, with purple clouds. Many other Artists Tayzia Abattoir, the exhibition's curator, has brought many works together from a range of artists in addition to the two featured. Tayzia has a long history of curating exhibitions in SL, and has one of the premier collections. As a whole, the show provides a great introduction to the creative possibilities that have brought artists into this new medium, with examples going back to 2004. AM Radio, RacerX Gullwing, Starax Statosky, Stormy Roentgen, Sasun Steinbeck, LittleToe Bartlett, Morris Vig, and more than I could see in one viewing. click
here to continue with more and larger images --- Recent
Picks Victor Vezina and Juanita Deharo The
Last Supper Performance
art, appropriation, trompe l'oeil, scripted poses and photography are
combined in the newest referential work from Victor Vezina and Juanita
Deharo at the SL Art Gallery in the Second Life®
virtual world. click
to continue reading, see images, === Arahan Claveau and Nebulosus Severine have added a weekly series of radio programs to their Arthole project, which we featured in April. In addition two shows by the two Arthole founders, there is a segment by artist and critic Amy Freelunch, one of our favorite reviewers of art in the Second Life® virtual world. The shows
are streamed on Wednesdays on the following schedule: ===
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