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a critical review of virtual business and culture |
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ARTS The SLART Summer Festival is being organized by Artropolis impresario Filthy Fluno and Slart Enterprises founder ArtWorld Market. It will present live musical performances in several genres, and an exhibition of virtual artworks. A catalog of the event is in preparation, and will be issued as a SLART Publication. Filthy and ArtWorld will both be at the Second Life Community Conference (SLCC) in Tampa September 5th through 7th. ====
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There are over 475 art galleries in the Second Life world, according to Sasun Steinbeck, creator of the Art Gallery Owners Group. As the chart above makes graphically clear, the number of confirmed galleries stayed about the same from the end of 2007 until May, 2008. Confirmed galleries must display the Art Galleries of Second Life Kiosk, which dispenses the gallery list and HUD that enables gallery goers to visit every gallery in the Group. This is an awesome tool if you have not used it, and is the best way to discover what hundreds of artists are currently doing. It is possible that the gallery growth rate continued during the flatline period, but was not apparent because new gallery owners had not become aware of the Group or had not configured their kiosk properly. A New Art Gallery Map Sasun has just created a website-based interactive Second Life art gallery map. It has zoom and position tools, you can click and drag the map, and the mousewheel will zoom in and out. You also can enter a region name at the top of the screen to find galleries in that region. If you click on one of the "buttons" that identify gallery locations, the name of the gallery pops up, along with the gallery owner and type of gallery, with a link to "teleport now" to the gallery. There is also a database generated list of galleries that you can sort in several ways. With nearly 500 locations it may take a minute or two to load them all, and there is an "update map" button at the bottom that will refresh it. Sasun is still testing it, so please report any bugs. It is here. ===== Free
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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. |
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VIRTUAL RENAISSANCE Museum of Natural History at the University of Florence If you are thinking about going to Florence this year, the end of October might be a good time. Mario Gerosa is curating an exhibition of virtual art under the auspices of Fondazione Sistema Toscana. The exhibition will be presented in conjunction with the 2008 Festival of Creativity, October 23-26. The information about the Virtual Worlds component of the festival is primarily in Italian on their website.click here to read the press release ==== 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 ==== Read about SLART® products and services in the Media STEP Inside
Design, March-April 2008, Vol. 24 No. 2 |
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