Life to the second power

A gallery has been added to SHL's Second Life space, exhibiting materials from Lynn Hershman's Roberta Breitmore project. Occupying the lower terrace of the LifeSquared gallery building on SHL's Hotgates island, this exhibit uses seven projection screens to display the archival remnants of this examination of persona, identity, and physical embodiment.

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Posted by Jeff Aldrich at 2:06 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Looking rather like a revealed structure at an archaeological dig, this home-made floorplan was produced by the current owners of what was once the Dante Hotel.

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While browsing the neighborhood not too far from my own "estate" in SL, I came across this remarkable site. The pictures tell a bit of the story, and the conceit is simple enough, but really worth a visit to the Cavorite Mines and Exoarchaeological Philology Visitor Centre (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Alice/102/52/77/). Imagine an abandoned "cavorite" mine, some intriguing artifacts strewn about, a great tethered iron kite... There's even an old leatherbound copy of H.G.Wells' The First Men in the Moon, unabridged.

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Posted by Jeff Aldrich at 7:37 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

has anyone been able to create a place that alters itself each time it is entered? If we begin with the dante hotel, collapsing back into itself (as in the opening of the dvd) one could design it to collapse into itself and therefore time, and perspectives, but more about that tomorrow at 10 a.m. in sl

Posted by Lynn Hershman Leeson at 9:56 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Henrik has been working on some design concepts - through a new game he is making. [Link]

The characters he has created are wonderfully creepy baby dolls -

Lynn's telerobotic Dollie clones - Tillie and CybeRoberta - are connected to the web and let you look through their eyes - camera eye-cons - cyborg prosthetics, but in the distributed space of the internet.

Telerobotic presences

CybeRoberta and Tillie

I am fascinated by the double nature of the doll - familiar and cosy replica, but also and often verging on an uncanny creepiness - this is the word that seems to fit for me.

More of Henrik's monsters ...

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