Turbulence 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 symposium that explores the convergence-through cyberspace-of real and synthetic places made possible by computers and networks. Mixed Realities links and overlays the Huret & Spector Gallery (Boston), Turbulence.org (Internet), and Ars Virtua (Second Life).
Second Life is a shared, synthetic, 3-D environment through which people can interact in real-time by means of a virtual self or avatar.
Audience members – who will be embodied as avatars in Second Life, browsing the works at turbulence.org, and/or be physically present in the gallery – will interact with the works and with one another. Thus, Mixed Realities will enable people who are distributed across multiple physical and virtual spaces to communicate with one another and share experiences in real time.
ARTISTS: Drew Baker, Neill Donaldson, John (Craig) Freeman, Usman Haque, Ai Hasegawa, Scott Kildall, Michael Takeo Magruder, Pierre Proske, Victoria Scott, David Steele, Georg Tremmel
Ars Virtua is sponsored by the CADRE Laboratory for New Media
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. commissioned five works ($5,000 each) for Mixed Realities with funds from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Hosted by Emerson College‚Äôs Huret & Spector Gallery, the exhibition and symposium are funded by Emerson College’s School of the Arts and Department of Visual and Media Arts; and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
