To visit Ars Virtua simply create a free account in Second Life and run the current client. Once you have this properly installed follow one of these links: (Kligerman AVAIR / permanent collection) (Streaming Museum) (new exhibits)
Portal Pictures
Jun 7 2008
Here are the portal pictures from thursday night they are cc Michael Lowell http://www.flickr.com/photos/pookieevans/sets/72157605473728043/ moreTurbulence Mixed Realities Reception
Mar 28 2008
Saturday March 29 11-1pm SLT http://slurl.com/secondlife/Seventh%20Eye/6/77/48 Ars Virtua invites you to an artist’s reception for the Turbulence Mixed Realities show. We wanted to have a chance for everyone to gather in Second Life and again in the gallery space, this is a chance to meet with artists and curators in the space. Mixed Realities is an exhibition and [...] more“need”
Mar 17 2008
March 18, 7pm SLT http://slurl.com/secondlife/Seventh%20Eye/135/14/35 Ars Virtua presents an emerging artists exhibition in collaboration with the ICAM program at the University of California San Diego. need The idea of a separate set of needs for ones Second Life is both absurd and tantalizing. Abraham Maslow provides an interesting heirarchy that other than a few basic differences lays over [...] moreAVAIR Performance March 6 @ 11:15 am SLT
Mar 2 2008
On Thursday March 6th at 11am SLT the Ars Virtua Artist in Residency program presents Feed Lack Loop with Micheál O’Connell. Feed Lack Loop arose out of experiments with the idea of Feedback. Using a live performer and an Avatar in the Online World Second Life, Micheál O’Connell inquires whether the concept of interactivity, so lauded [...] moreMixed Realities Exhibition
Feb 5 2008
Mixed Reality is the merging of real and virtual worlds to produce new environments where physical and digital objects can co-exist and interact in real-time. Feb 7- April 15, in http://slurl.com/secondlife/Seventh%20Eye/6/77/48, on http://turbulence.org and in the Huret & Spector Gallery in Boston. Reception in Ars Virtua on Thursday Feb 7 from 2pm-4pm SLT. Mixed Realities is an exhibition [...] moreStreaming Museum in Second Life
Jan 26 2008
Ars Virtua Welcomes the Streaming Museum to its Butler rooftop panoramic space. We will be representing the eighth continent in the worldwide exhibition. Included in the reel are AV’s own J0E Languish and Rubaiyat Shatner. Cyberspace Exhibition - Opens January 29 Art and Pop Culture in a Modern Mix for the Electronic Superhighway A 48-minute exhibition of work by [...] moreAVAIR: World of Warcraft
Jan 8 2008
Deadline: January 15, 2008 Ars Virtua Gallery and New Media Center is soliciting proposals for its artist-in-residence program. Established and emerging artists will work within the massively multiplayer online environment of World of Warcraft. The residency will culminate in an exhibition of documentation in Second Life and/or on the web. Residents will also receive a $400 stipend, [...] moreArs Virtua Temporary Autonomous Zone
Nov 28 2007
Ars Virtua artist Thomas Asmuth is spearheading the creation of a Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ) in the online realm of World of Warcraft; December 3, 2007 at 7:00 pm PST (details below). “Performance art in WoW is not really that big a stretch if you consider the social arena that is already in place in-world. We [...] moreSeptember 14 FUSE: conversation presents Red76
Sep 10 2007
September 14 FUSE: conversation presents Red76 (http://cadre.sjsu.edu/fuse) live at SJ city hall and simulcast in Ars Virtua (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Seventh%20Eye/6/77/48). Please join us FridaySeptember 14th at 7pm in our Seventh Eye “auditorium.”FUSE: collaboration connects Silicon Valley companies and fine arts students from the CADRE Laboratory in unorthodox partnerships with artists that inspire new forms of technology-based production [...] moreBRIAN ENO’S 77 MILLION PAINTINGS TO EXHIBIT IN ARS VIRTUA
Jun 29 2007
We are pleased to announce that this Friday the 29th, at 8 PM PDT (Second Life Time), The Long Now Foundation will begin the Second Life premiere of Brian Eno’s 77 Million Paintings. This will occur alongside its North American premiere in San Francisco, in partnership with blueair.tv. Each installation of 77 Million [...] moreWe are the Strange
Jun 25 2007
Ars Virtua is proud to present the Second Life premier of We are the Strange on Friday June 29 at 6pm SLT. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Seventh%20Eye/1/102/46 M dot strange takes us into the new realm of video game structured and inspired storytelling with his character’s harrowing quest for ice cream. The variety of animation styles, game and cultural references and [...] moreSecond AVAIR
Jun 5 2007
Ars Virtua is pleased to announce the appointment of our second artist in residence (AVAIR. Alana Perlin has been selected to work on a project tentatively called Interactive Interiors. Over the coming weeks we will have a reception to welcome Alana and introduce her to the AV community. AVAIR is an extended performance that examines what it [...] more« Organizing light in the time and space of the projected image »
Apr 19 2007
(the determination of an Image-Space) Opening Friday April 20 (23:59 SLT/PDT) & April 21 (12:00 SLT/PDT - noon) Brad Kligerman Ars Virtua Artist-in-Residence (AVAIR) Artist and Architect Brad Kligerman has turned the idea of art making upside down or rather inside out in his AVAIR exhibit. Kligerman questions the idea of materiality in the rendered environment and the [...] moreFandomania & Furries
Mar 29 2007
Avatars express identity. The life of and choices made in creating ones avatar are processes that are well known and long lived in real life. Fandomania is an exhibit of works by Elena Dorfman from the soon to be released book by Aperture of the same name. The work is represented through portrait photography and provides an interesting window into the world of "cosplay." "The theater of cosplay has no boundaries, is unpredictable, open-ended. It includes both the fantastic and the mundane, the sexually aberrant and innocent, female characters who become samurai warriors and brainy scientists, and male characters who magically change their sex," as described by Dorfman. moreTribute to Jean Baudrillard
Mar 17 2007
Ars Virtua Remembers Jean Baudrillard "What I am, I don't know. I am the simulacrum of myself." -Jean Baudrillard Today at 4 pm SLT Ars Virtua held a small wake for the passing of Jean Baudrillard. The event was held in World of Warcraft and telecast into Second Life in our first trans-instance event. The audience was small but very engaged. Documentation which includes a copy of the live video from WoW can be found on our Baudrillard Wake page. moreImaging Place SL: The U.S./Mexico Border
Jan 5 2007
“Imaging Place” has been under development since 1997 and includes work from around the world including Taipei Taiwan, São Paulo Brazil, Kamloops BC Canada, Warsaw Poland, the U.S./Mexico Border, Fort Point MA, Lowell MA, the Miami River, Kaliningrad Russia, Haverhill MA, Niagara, New England, Appalachia, and Florida. Although the method borrows freely from the traditions [...] moreSecond Front Performance
Jan 5 2007
Live performance: Second Front WHO: Second Front - www.slfront.blogspot.com WHERE: ARS VIRTUA - GALLERY 2 - www.arsvirtua.com WHEN: Friday, January 05, 2007 - 7 PM PST Second Front is the first dedicated performance art group in Second Life. To officially open JC Fremont’s Installation at Ars Virtua, Second Front will be creating a realtime interpretive and site-specific performance [...] more13 Most Beautiful Avatars
Nov 15 2006
Wednesday, November 15, 2006 13 Most Beautiful Avatars by Eva and Franco Mattes (a.k.a. 0100101110101101.ORG) Curated by Marisa Olson Nov. 15 - Dec. 29, 2006 at Second Life’s Ars Virtua gallery. Nov. 30 - Dec. 19, 2006 at The Italian Academy, Columbia University (NYC) 13 Most Beautiful Avatars, an exhibition in Second Life’s increasingly popular Ars Virtua gallery –a virtual nonprofit [...] moreimmersivity through Synchronization
Sep 29 2006
by i7o Zhu, Minimal and Spatial Audio Visual instalation researching the immersivity value of synchronised stimuli. spatial minimalism 2006 by http://um.mu Deleuze, alluding to Kant and Schelling, at times refers to his philosophy as a transcendental empiricism. In Kant’s transcendental idealism, experience only makes sense when organized by intellectual categories (such as space, time, and causality). Taking [...] morehonesty is our policy
Sep 8 2006
Curated from the turbulence.org archive by Amy Wilson, James Morgan, and Jay Van Buren I always know that my television has drifted over to the Fox network when I catch a glimpse of a teaser for an upcoming news story about “internet predators;” the well of horror tales involving fake identities and malicious wrongdoers lurking on [...] moreSecond Life Landscape Initiative
Jul 28 2006
What is the Second Life Landscape Initiative? SLLI is an attempt to understand landscape in the synthetic world of Second Life. We are presenting the different land masses in several forms: 1) The raw z data of the sim. These files are available for download at http://arsvirtua.com/slli/blender-data.html. You will need the blender application which is freely [...] moreTransposition
Jun 30 2006
curated by aaron siegel Temporal abstractions of information have always been important to communicate ideas, whether simple or complex. By translating information into a visual form, we’re able to reflect upon it with a different perspective. This creation of perspective is the key to transposition. Transposition is the ability to translate data from one form to another [...] moreHow have you been an artist today?
May 26 2006
by Michael Smit gallery 2 inaugural show How have you been an artist today? This is the name of an ongoing interventionist art project and investigation started by artist Michael Smit. In it, in an exchange with Smit or someone else, people are invited to consider and respond to this question, in a documented conversation. The question [...] moreThe Real
Apr 28 2006
The Real - Apr 28, 2006; curated by James Morgan, main gallery, inaugural show What is “the Real?” I have been asking myself that question quite a lot recently. The only answer that I can come up with that makes any sense is: everything. Every object, idea, dream, shadow and piece of code [...] more