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May 19, 20063D Printing for Second Life Residents
Posted by Matteo Bittanti
Gizmodo are reporting on Recursive Instruments' 3D Printing service for Second Life Residents. May 12, 2006What are we doing here?
Posted by Henrik Bennetsen
After the good news of our funding the anticipation around this has been replaced by a more reflective mood in me. We started this project with a sense of excitement arising from the potential of the digital achieve to change how art is created and experienced. The scarcity effects of yesterday relating to money and finite spaces to display art are fading fast. Massively multiplayer games have taught us that highly social persistent spaces are accessible to people with a decent computer hooked up to a broadband internet connection. These worlds’ yield creative synchronous rich experiences that was impossible in yesterday’s world. But we know all this now, this can’t keep being news! What do we actually do with this and what are the challenges? This got me thinking about precedence. After a while I ended up at cinema. When the ability to create two dimensional moving pictures was first discovered the potential was also obvious. You could make theatre available to a much wider percent of the population, so at first film was all about filming plays. Luckily this medium was further developed into the precious medium it is today. I believe that this is the task we have ahead of us. Let us try to do one better than merely translating Lynn’s art into something virtual. Let us discuss and investigate how we may come with a suggestion for a new language for art in virtual space. Because art that is native to this new medium deserves the respect its own language implies. This is what I believe we should be doing here. May 11, 2006Random Thoughts
Posted by Matteo Bittanti
In a sense, the digital self sees itself not in opposition to such a thing as a “real self”, but as an extension of our “first life”, that is, our existence in tangible, offline worlds. But our second life - the set of activities and practices that our avatar performs in digital spaces - requires by definition the previous one. Thus, one must not forget that there is a third life, which is the combination of the first and second lives. [yes, I am still thinking about Here, There, Noware] |