Coming up soon, the LifeSquared project will be exhibited at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, sponsored by us (the Stanford Humanities Lab) and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology.
I’ve created a SL duplicate of the RL exhibit space in Montreal, and visitors to the RL space will be able to visit the SL reflection of that space while they are in it. Webcams, avatars, streaming video… all the good stuff.
More details and pics to come for this post, and of course there will be follow-up on the event itself.
Monthly Archives: August 2007
With so much energy focused on the FormulaSL season (a huge success, on many levels), MotoSL has taken it’s sweet time getting organized. It’s coming, though, and I’ve been working on graphics for the new season.
We’ll be going with a corporate look that provides some continuity with OMG’s FormulaSL team cars. Oh, and I’ve got a new teammate, Xia Mirabeau, who has been making huge progress in pre-season practice and testing.
This is somewhat old news, but I have to talk about this very nice exhibit on Hotgates. The 5-year process of gathering and curating this collection of political posters from late 19th to mid 20th century resulted in an award-winning show at the Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, and later was shown at other venues as well. 
A large part of the collection is available to view in this gallery I made for it on Hotgates. In addition to a good sampling of posters from the show, there is also a streaming video of a movie made for the exhibit, entitled “Will The Party Lead Me”, a view of the crowd as political actor from the times of the Bolshevik revolution to the present.
Placeholder for some further updates, some improving results, even a couple of race wins! Woohoo! Pics and commentary will be along shortly.
This is another Lynn Hershman project, the creation of a synthetic persona in flesh and blood, in the late 1970s. More to come in a bit, but as part of this Stanford Humanities Lab project I created a reasonably faithful-to-RL avatar for Roberta, who has her own SL account. And there’s a nice gallery you can visit on Hotgates to see the remains of this particular past, now extended into a synthetic present/presence.
This Stanford Humanities Lab project kicked off my SL existence. This ongoing work, installed on the laboratory island adjacent to Hotgates, began in late 2005. It seeks to animate the archive of the work of artist Lynn Hershman, using Second Life to bring new life to Real Life. It’s all about Past, Presence, Future…
Our initial focus in LifeSquared has been on Hershman’s 1973 installation project The Dante Hotel, reconstructing this RL San Francisco location as an interactive re-animation of this work.
Like she said: “placeholder”. Here I’ll talk about the first half of the inaugural FormulaSL open-wheel auto racing season. A somewhat inauspicious start, some nice racing pics, some progress made, some cool links. Coming soon.
This little corner of Hotgates started out as a simple set of stone steps leading down from the main galleries to the sundeck and the lower gallery. As happens with people who can’t stop puttering with stuff, I kept poking at it until it became a bit of “ancient” stonework poking out of the ground, with a weathered old Buddha, altar, and the old stone steps. This is my favorite sunrise meditation spot. Many thanks to my wonderful friends who added their own flower offerings.
This is a placeholder posting, which I’ll complete in a bit with information and a picture or two from my Cayuga Gallery. This gallery currently displays RL art in traditional media, in limited editions for SL purchase. Stand by for details.
