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Filthy Fluno opens CounterpART Gallery
in Second Life
® and Real Life

Party in RL & SL Saturday April 26, 2008  4:30 pm PST 

Jeffrey Lipsky, who in Second Life is Filthy Fluno, one of Second Life's most prominent artist-entrepreneurs, has opened an art gallery in Lowell, Massachusetts that features SL artists. There will be a reception at the CounterpART Gallery, 128 Merrimack St, starting at 7:30 pm local time (EST). 

LIVE MUSIC AND THEATER GOING BOTH WAYS

The popular SL musician Cylindrian Rutabaga will be performing live in the gallery and streaming the concert into the SL CounterpART. From the SL side, Dancoyote Antonelli's ZeroG Skydancers  hyperformalist performance will be viewed in the RL CounterpART, followed by a concert from SL with blues master Komuso Tokugawa performing and collaborating live with Hathead Rickenbacker and other musicians from around the world!

Read the CounterpART Press Release (PDF)

Teleport to the SL CounterpART Gallery

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SLART Magazine featured in
STEP Inside Design Magazine

The March/April 2008 issue of STEP Inside Design Magazine has an excellent article about art in Second Life®. It's a very well produced real-world publication, as one would expect from a design magazine, so get a copy of the paper edition if you can. It features Filthy Fluno, DanCoyote, and Sabine Stonebender. The author of the article, Ina Saltz, reports on a tour of the SL art world with our editor, ArtWorld Market.

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DanCoyote compared to
New Zealand Pioneer Artists

Artist and Hyperformalist SL theoretician DanCoyote Antonelli (DC Spensley) is the subject of a scholarly paper by Caroline McCaw of Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand, which is now available online

DC is currently organizing a major exhibition in Second Life titled Kiss the Sky, intended to establish Hyperformalism as an art movement.

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MONDAYS, 6:30 PM SLT
ART TALKS

PleaseWakeMeUp Idler conducts Art Talks Mondays at 6:30 at Mandel'BRAT's and BREW in Artropolis. Subjects range from protecting your intellectual property rights to critiques of artworks. 

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Parallel Worlds: Explorations in "Second Life"

The Aperture Foundation sponsored a panel discussion on art in SL at The New School in New York City on February 13th, 2008.

The panelists were Fred Ritchin, NYU professor and a contributing editor of Aperture; Michael Van Horn, curator of the Joseph Monsen Collection in Seattle; Richard Minsky, founder of SLART magazine; and Michael Schmelling, photographer.

Click here to view the online video of all the presentations.
Tip: click "play clip" and you can navigate the video with the little button on the slide bar.

   Arthole
A collaborative art space in Second Life
by Nebulosus Severine & Arahan Claveau

Opening April 26th 2008


In Ichibot Nishi's λ.mnemonic, Silence writes itself on the wall in breasts
 and then floats off.

Arthole is a set of three sky galleries in the Second Life® world, each with a different theme. One has older work by Arthole's creators, Nebulosus Severine and Arahan Claveau. The second has current work, and the third is for guest artists. 

continue to full review

teleport to Arthole

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Art and Politics

Political is Personal

A walk-through installation by PleaseWakeMeUp Idler and Sherpa Voyager brings attention to the human side of the Iraq war and some of the motivations that gave rise to it. In one of the rooms faces turn to follow you, and floating texts appear from them with comments.

Ad Reinhardt meets Thorstein Veblen
More than just propaganda, the installation brings together an unusual mix of art history and economic thought. In a room bearing the inscription "Conspicuous Consumption" on a wall there is a small white object made of 1000 prims. The motto comes from Veblen's 1899 classic, The Theory of the Leisure Class, and the

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The in-world book
 is available in Second Life. 
Get it at the
Artropolis Outpost.
You can get a single copy for L200 or a 3-pack for 50% off.

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.

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Read about SLART® products and services in the Media

STEP Inside Design, March-April 2008, Vol. 24 No. 2
         "Virtual Artworks" by Ina Saltz, pp. 14-17
ARTnews, February, 2008: All the Web's a Stage
UgoTrade: Soho + Second Life = Sexy!
Location One: Live tour of the SL Art World (video)
Studio 360 ( (PRI): Kurt Andersen interview (audio)
DIE ZEIT: Pixel und Papier
Financial Times Deutschland: Second Life - das ist Beuys...
Smithsonian Museum Eye Level: Second Life Meets...
Hrag Vartanian: Art in Second Life, an interview with ...
ARTNET: FIRST-RATE ART IN "SECOND LIFE"
ARTKRUSH: Mag Tracks Art of Second Life
CIBERESCRITURAS 2-17-07 Slart: magazine y galerķas ...
 

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SLART®  Video Tour of the
Second Life
® Art World
Now Playing

The live SL art tour
at Location One
is now playing in Second Life at a theater near you.

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Free Download: The Art World Market of Second Life® (PDF)
Paper on the Business of Art in SL
presented at SLCC August 25, 2007
Over 10,000 downloads of this paper since then.

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