SECOND LIFE - GameScenes

INSTALLATION

Game Art: Walter Langelaar's "Tangled_Object_Description_Overview" (2007)

Walter Langelaar's Tangled_Object_Description_Overview, 2011, installation view at WORM "A both computer-based and sculptural work that copies objects from Second Life into Google Earth and from there into the real physical space, creating a feedback loop between all three environments and dissolving the difference between

DOCUMENTARY

Web Series: Inside the Avatar Studio

Link: Metaverse TV Submitted by Matteo Bittanti

GAME ART

Game Art: Tutsy Navarantha's "A Journey Into the Metaverse" (2011)

Link: Tutsy Navarantha Submitted by Matteo Bittanti

PAINTING

Game Art: Zephyru Zapedzki's Virtual Paintings series (2011)

"3D Virtual Paintings - Part 1: Georges Braque - Black Fish, Edward Hopper - Sun In An Empty Room, Piet Mondrian - Composition, José Pedro - Spontaneous Metaphysical Synchronization In The Presence Of The Biophobic Object's Nonconformism -- Machinima and artwork by Zephyru Zapedzki 2011 - Music:

GAME ART

Game Art: Judith Doyle's "Phantom House" (2010)

"Phantom House : an architecture with hand-drawn and streaming media textures, built in the SecondLife virtual world by artist Judith Doyle, with technical assistance from Ian Murray. Judith Doyle writes, 'Phantom House' is a memory architecture constructed in the nocturnal upper atmosphere of the SecondLife virtual world. After

EVENT

Event: "Extimacy: the intimate is Other" (Museum of Contemporary Art, Palma de Majorca, Spain, 29.01.2011 - 01.05.2011)

Gazira Babeli, The Bathers, 2010. Photo Gazira Babeli Extimacy: the intimate is Other (Pau Waelder, curator of "Extimacy. Art, intimacy and technology") Inside the immense flow of data exchange, the new technologies have facilitated an interdependency between the spheres of what is private and what is public, between

GAME ART

Game Art: Lori Landay's "Open End: A Digital Silent Film Screwball Comedy about Irresolution" (2011)

"When a distracted woman and her pink leopard crash their hot air balloon into a handsome rogue who is just minding his own business . . . well, you know how it will end. Or do you? If you're a film buff, this machinima movie (digital video captured in a

MACHINIMA

Game Art: Sachiko Hayashi and James Barrett's "Une Région, mais pas Centrale by Garrett Lynch" (2011)

"Une Région, mais pas Centrale (A Region, but not Central) is inspired by Michael Snow's seminal video art from 1970, La Région Centrale. In Snow's work a camera is mounted to a pre-programmed robotic rig which allows the camera to move around two axis and

INTERVIEW

Interview: Benjamin Nuel's Game Art and the end of Second Life

GameScenes is conducting a series of interviews with artists, critics, curators, and gallery owners operating in the field of Game Art, as part of our ongoing investigation of the social history of this fascinating artworld. Our goal is to illustrate the genesis and evolution of a phenomenon that changed the