We are thrilled to have 18 of the best SL artists from from around
the world supporting One Billion Rising event with their amazing work.
We have asked them to share a bit about themselves and their art. Scroll
down to learn more. Thank you so much to all of the artists. We
appreciate you!
Artist: SOLKIDE AUER – Italy
“Second Life has been and is for me a very important experience.
The starting effect of curiosity for this metaverse soon turned into
the wish of saying something trying to create a definite personality.
Building gave me that chance, that is, the ability to creating
objects of any kind, from the simplest to the most complex. All that
after attending some courses offered by the school of Building at
Secondlearning. Later on, after exploring this metaverse far and wide,
I realized I wanted to do something that would go beyond the usual rule
of structures or classical framing; so I tried to express my ideas
through different sculptures. I started creating geometrical shapes then
I used more difficult techniques such as “the shade”, which gives the
possibility to manipulate a unique prim in a very complex way. As a
result I obtained unexpected and different shapes quite unlike the ones
anyone can find around.”
“Respawn”
“It is clear that I’ve been working hard to get this result trying to
get the good ones a and long nights spent trying to understand how to
frame at my best some works that could convey an emotion…. even the
simplest, and that it could attract people to an idea I had in my mind
or just to share my message with them.
In October I had the honour to be at “Virtual Renaissance” in
Florence, with 5 of my work printed on 2 curtains decorating one of the
room of Museum of Natural Science – Anthopological Section.
In March 2009 some of my works has been exposed in big monitors at
Rome in the Adriano’s Temple during an exhibition about Digital Art.
I have partecipated for three years at the Burning Life in SL an
exhibition made in the same time at the Nevada desert in USA called
Burning Man.
In this 3 years of sl i have participated at many exhibitions and
exposed to the most important Museum of SL : Pirats Gallery – AHO Museum
– Primtings Museum – Delacroix Hall – Crescent Moon Museum - Piramide
Art Gallery – Museo del Metaverso - Diabolus Art Space – UWA
(University West Australia) Gallery - Aeonia Arts and many other
important gallery.” Solkide Auer
Italiano
“Secondlife e’ stata ed e’ una esperienza per me molto importante.
L’impatto iniziale di curiosita’ per questo metaverso si e’ trasformato
con il tempo con la voglia di poter dire anche io qualcosa cercando di
crearmi una identita’ ben precisa.
Questa opportunita’ me l’ha data il Build, ossia la capacita’ di
costruire oggetti di qualsiasi genere dal più semplice al piu’
complesso, naturalmente seguendo i corsi messi a disposizione dalla
scuola di Build di Secondlearning. Con l’andare del tempo e dopo aver
girato in lungo e in largo questo metaverso, mi sono ritrovato a voler
fare qualcosa che andasse oltre i soliti canoni delle strutture e
costruzioni classiche, provando ad esprimere le mie idee attraverso
delle sculture di vario genere. Iniziando da forme geometriche sono
approdato poi all’uso di tecniche piu’ difficili quali lo shade, che
permette di manipolare un solo prim in maniera complessa e dando forme
inaspettate e dissimili dalle solite cose che si possono trovare andando
in giro. Naturalmente alle spalle c’e’ un lavoro di tentativi su
tentativi e intere serate a cercare di capire come meglio forgiare delle
opere che potessero dare una emozione anche la piu’ semplice..ma che
potesse far soffermare su una idea che io ho in testa, e poterla
condividere con altre persone.
In ottobre 2008 ho avuto l’onore di essere presente al “Rinascimento
Virtuale” a Firenze dove 5 miei lavori sono stati impressi su tende a
decorare le sale del Museo di Scienze Naturali – Sezione Antropologia
Nel marzo 2009 alcune delle mie opere sono state esposte su dei grandi
monitors a Roma al Tempio di Adriano, in occasione di una mostra
sull’arte digitale.
Nel marzo 2010 ho esposto al MUSEAVV di Nizza si occasione dell’esposizione Vritual looking glass.
Nel settembre 2010 ho esposto alcune mie opere al GOGBOT 2010 in olanda al Festival internazionale di arte digitale.
Ho partecipato per quattro anni di seguito al Burning Life su Second
Life, una manifestazione che si tiene in contemporanea al Burning Man
nel deserto del Nevada negli USA in cui i partecipanti esprimono la loro
arte.
Ho partecipato a innumerevoli mostre ed esposizioni in SeconLife presso i
principali luoghi espositivi piu importanti tra cui : Pirats Gallery –
AHO Museum – Primtings Museum – Delacroix Hall – Crescent Moon Museum -
Piramide Art Gallery – Museo del Metaverso - Diabolus Art Space – UWA
(University West Australia) Gallery – Aeonia Arts e molte altre
importanti gallerie.”
Français
“Second Life a été et est pour moi une expérience très importante.
Le premier effet de curiosité pour ce metaverse bientôt c’est
transformée en la volonté de dire quelque chose essayand de créer un
personnalité bien défini.
Le Build m’a donné cette chance, c’est donc la capacité à créer des
objets de toute nature, du plus simple au plus complexe. Tout cela après
avoir assisté à des cours offerts par l’école du build à
Secondlearning. Plus tard, après la découverte de ce metaverse dans tous
les bou, j’ai réalisé que je voulais faire quelque chose qui irait
au-delà de la règle de l’élaboration de structures classique, alors
j’ai essayé d’exprimer mes idées parmi différentes sculptures. J’ai
commencé à créer des formes géométriques puis-je utiliser plus difficile
des techniques comme que le “shade”, qui donne la possibilité de
manipuler un prim en maniere très complexe obtenent un résultat
différent de ceux que tout le monde peut trouver autour.
Il est clair que j’ai travaillé dur pour obtenir ce résultat, essayant
d’obtenir des resultats et beaucoup de nuits passées à essayer de
comprendre à la façon de mon mieux à certains travaux qui pourraient
transmettre une émotion …. même les plus simples, et que cela pourrait
attirer des gens à une idée que j’avais dans mon esprit ou tout
simplement pour partager mon message avec eux.
En octobre 2008 j’ai eu l’honneur d’etre a “Renaissance Virtuelle” a
Florence avec 5 de mes travaux imprimé sur 4 tableau a decorer les salle
du Museum of Natural Sciences – Anthtopological Section.
A mars du 2009 quelqun de mes oeuvres ons eté exposé sur des grands
écrans a Rome au Temple de Adrien pendant une exibition de Digital Art.
J’ai partecipé pour trois ans a le Burning Life sur SL, une
manifestation qu’il y a au meme temp d’une exposition au desert du
Nevada in USA.
J’ai partecipé a beaucoup de exibitions sur SL au pres des plus
important place de l’art de SL : Pirats Gallery – AHO Museum – Primtings
Museum – Delacroix Hall – Crescent Moon Museum - Piramide Art Gallery –
Museo del Metaverso - Diabolus Art Space – UWA (University West
Australia) Gallery – Aeonia Arts et beaucoup d’autre gallerie.”
Espanol
“Second Life ha sido y sigue siendo para mí una experiencia muy importante.
El efecto a partir de la curiosidad por este metaverso pronto se
convirtió en el deseo de decir algo tratando de crear una personalidad
definida. Construir me dio esa oportunidad, que es la capacidad de
creación de objetos de todo tipo, desde los más simples a los más
complejos.
Todo eso después de asistir a algunos cursos ofrecidos por la escuela de
Trabajadores de la Construcción en Secondlearning. Más tarde, después
de explorar este metaverso a lo largo y ancho, me di cuenta de que yo
quería hacer algo que fuera más allá del habitual estado de las
estructuras o la elaboración clásica, así que traté de expresar mis
ideas a través de diferentes esculturas. Comencé a crear formas
geométricas, luego utilicé las técnicas más difíciles, tales como “la
sombra”, lo que da la posibilidad de manipular un único Prim en una
forma muy compleja.
Como resultado obtuve formas inesperadas y muy diferentes a las que
pueden encontrar por ahí. He trabajado duro para obtener este resultado,
tratando de crear buenas piezas y pasé muchas noches tratando de
entender cómo enmarcar de la mejor manera algunas obras para poder
transmitir una emoción …. incluso la más simple, y que podría atraer a
la gente a una idea que tuve o simplemente para compartir mi mensaje con
ellos.”
Artist: GWEN CARRILON – USA
Gwen Carillon’s work is known for its shimmering glass textures,
signature prim torture, and for its heart. She makes no distinction
between SL and RL – she says, “creativity knows no bounds and accepts no
limitations,” and applies that philosophy in both worlds.
Gwen’s artwork has been shown in many Second Life galleries and
museums, including the Crescent Moon Museum and the New Media
Consortium. Her sculpture, “Rebirth,” an interactive meditation sphere,
won the award for Best in Second Life in judged competition at The Tech
Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California, in June 2008. A
representation of “Rebirth” is on display at The Tech.
A collaboration with pianist Enniv Zarf (Paul Kwo) led to a series of
performance art concerts in which Gwen sculpted while Enniv played, and
each artist inspired and drew from the other. The result of one
performance was a CD entitled “Rebirth” after Gwen’s sculpture.
“Rebirth”
Gwen’s commitment to art recently took her into television, as the new host of Metaverse Arts on Treet TV.
Along with sim design / development ,interiors, jewelry and art, Gwen
has brought her unique vision to fashion design. Her label Gwen
Carillon Designs is flamboyant and whimsical perspective on couture
Gwen Carillon is a real-life sculptor,painter,poet and jeweler and DJ
who took her skills to Second Life for the creative freedom it
afforded. Her sim Elements in Design houses her unique and beautiful
clothing, furniture, home accessories, jewelry, art, and sculpture. In
her off time she performs as a DJ in Second Life and the physical world.
She lives in San Francisco, USA, with her two children.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gwen_carillon/
http://gwencarillondesigns.blogspot.com/
Artist: GIOVANNA CERISE – Italy
“Teacher and musician in RL , my “adventure by change” begins in SL
in December of 2008 and it is at work tied up mine in RL, that of
teacher. I immediately started manipulating prim and soon Sl has been
for me above all the place to create. In june 2009 I exposed on
Pyramid, and then after, in many Italian and foreign galleries (Pirats
Art Network,- Art Maniac, Studio 33, Galeria Mexico, Arte libera,Vertex ,
Galerie Artemis, Space art - A bottega con Arte e mente, Tanalois, ART
GALLERY, by Maryva Mayo, Gallery Art, ArtKandhor- Geyser art Space,
LEA art sandbox, Brooklyn is watching, Art nation, Erato of carleon,
Raglan Artwalk 2010, 2011, 2012 and many other).
“Across the Universe”
I attended are Burning2 2012, SLB9 and SLB8, Art & Poetry Project,
for which I exhibited at the Brera Academy, Carp Diabolus and Metales,
2LEI, a demonstration against violence against women.
From November 2011 as well as exhibitions in galleries I devoted
primarily to the design and construction of large installations such as
Variations On The magic flute, CyBorg Nature, for UWA Sky Sim for
series, Synesthesya for Split screen and “The opposite and completion”
for the Academy of Brera with a work inspired by Narcissus and Goldmund
by Herman Hesse , and that was shown in the physical location of the
Academy of Brera in Milan, through the projection screen.
I have participated at The cube project and and currently I have exposures LEA 14.” Giovanna Ceris
For more informations:
http://giovannacerise.blogspot.it/
Artist: KICCA IGALY – Italy
“In SL I started out as Kicca Igaly April 13, 2007. I went for the
first time in Second Life for Beauty … Coming from previous experience
of painting in RL and loving the Exchange, I chose to spend my time
looking for new forms of artistic expression. SL In fact, I found the
tools I needed and after a fast course in learning to INDIRE, I began to
experiment with sculpture, digital art or building, call it what you
want and the adventure began. The forms of expression that I prefer,
rely on manipulation of the ” prim”.
“The Wrong Shadow”
Usually, my work starts at an artistic project that took shape in my
mind before putting his hand to what I jokingly call “digital scalpel,”
and when the lines are clear of the project do a search to find the
tools that I consider more suitable to achieve it. I participation on
numerous exhibitions in SL, in museums and galleries in land and not
Italian. Among the different experiences, you certainly remember the
contribution to BURNING LIFE 09, with a collaborative effort with
Nessuno Myoo, named ArtEvolutionCube, housed in one of twelve sim
available to the Art Department, headed by White Lebed. Experience that
was repeated in February 2010 with a Burniversity masterclass, for the
project Afterburn. In June 2010 we were selected together with over 300
artists from all over the world to participate actively
for a large celebrations organized by Linden for the seventh birthday of SL.
In this event (SL7B) we displayed our work titled ‘Serendipity’.
Event that with great joy was also repeated in 2011 (SL8B) with a new
installation entitled ‘The Aleph’. In January 27, 2011, Memorial Day on
Nazi atrocities, for an invitation from Simba Schumann to the
inauguration of its new Garden of Arte Libera,
ness, Kicca Igaly and Icarus Robbiani, have created in a unique art
exhibition dedicated to this delicate theme, tled ‘Not to forget’,
having a good consensus. A demonstration of the fact that art is
certainly one of the means
most effective in raising awareness to issues considered difficult to
treat. I think that I created … a real new career in the metaverse,
which never fails to give me great satisfaction even on a human level
through fantastic people I have met.” Kicca Igaly
Here for my personal Art Gallery:
Here for the photos of my works on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31465953@N05/
Here for the photos of my works on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000527852123
I have a long history inworld, including exhibits at LEA27, The Looking Glass- Arts and Ente, Virtualworldwidemedia
LEA FULL SIM, Cuauhnahuac Gallery, Instituto Espanol, ” The International Art Gathering ” Arab Land Gallery,
NMC Campus West, Pirats, iMAGINE Art Gallery, ASTRAL DREAMS, Museo del Metaverso (MdM), Illinois State University,
.:ARTEFATTA:. ART Gallery Arena , ARTEFATTA IL MANICOMIO and many others.
Artist: GRACIE KENDAL – USA
“Often I feel like so much emphasis is put on how beautiful you are,
and how thin you are, and not a lot of emphasis is put on what you can
do and how smart you are. I’d like to change that, change the emphasis
of what’s important when looking at a woman.” —Margaret Kilgallen
GRACIE KENDAL (KRISTINE SCHOMAKER) is a new media and performance
artist, painter and art historian living and working at the Brewery
artist complex in Los Angeles California. She received her BA in Art
History and her MA in Studio Art from California State University at
Northridge. For over 14 years, she has been working with various
interdisciplinary art forms including online virtual worlds to explore
notions of online identity and the hybridization of digital media with
the physical world.
Whether physical or virtual, the object-based work Kristine creates
combines elements of color-based gestural abstraction, animation,
pattern and design, neo-Baroque and Populence. Using installation, text,
photography, mixed media, video and performance for her ongoing
conceptual project My Life as an Avatar, she visualizes a
narrative/dialogue with her virtual persona, Gracie Kendal.
“Ce n’est pas une peinture”
In early 2012, Kristine turned an art gallery into a re-creation of
Gertrude Stein’s salon and held a mixed reality performance/dinner party
at the opening. Over the summer she also performed The Bald and the
Beautiful in which she had her head shaved as a statement to challenge
society’s standards of beauty.
Kristine documents her experiences as an avatar on ber blog and she
has published four books on her new media work. She has an active life
in the arts, previously teaching art history at Antelope Valley College
and Pasadena City College, forming an artist collective in the Los
Angeles area, organizing and curating numerous art exhibitions and she
is a member of the Los Angeles Art Association, Southern California
Women’s Caucus for Art, College Art Association and Siggraph.
Currently, Kristine is working as an Artist-in-Residence through the
Linden Endowment for the Arts creating an immersive virtual Environment
that she is planning to bring into the physical world via
sculpture/public art work. In 2011, she won honorable mention in the
Fabrik Magazine juried competition and in 2010 she won the jurors award
at the Annual Juried art Exhibition at California State University at
Northridge.
Artist: EM LARSSON – Canada
Moira was drawn to photography as an art form for many years, having
taken thousands of pictures in the days of film and darkrooms. In time
she became discouraged by the use of chemicals and wastefulness of film
and turned her attention to other artistic forms. But the potential
unleashed with the advent of the digital age has caused her to come back
to the favourite pursuit of her youth.
“So We Dance!”
While photography can be a way of capturing, recording and
documenting the visual world as it appears, Moira considers her camera a
means of artistic expression. She believes altering images using
software is perfectly valid so she uses her camera and computer to make
art. Because she is fully aware that “everyone has a camera” she
strives to create something unique.
Moira first started sharing the results of her work in Second Life as
the avatar, Em Larsson. The opportunity to try out being in artist in
SL opened a new chapter and perhaps even a whole new book in her life.
Her success and the enthusiasm of her in-world fans have encouraged her
to present her work in the “real” world, where she has exhibited in
several RL galleries and even won awards for her work.
http://www.moiralaw.ca
Artists: MEILO MINATAUR & CAPCAT RAGU – Portugal
Meilo Minotaur is an artist with a background on Sculpture. She was
as a member of the handicrafts group Gárgula, having participated in
several international exhibitions and won various prizes.
Since 2008 has devoted her artistic activity to the Metaverse, working
individually and collaboratively in the Second Life virtual environment
where she held several solo exhibitions and collaborated with artists
from different fields and nationalities. Together with CapCat Ragu she
is the builder of the Second Life Sim Delicatessen, that held projects
like “de Maria, de Mariana, de Madalena”, “Petrified” and “Meta_Body”.
CapCat Ragu is an artist with a background on Painting and Art
Studies. She was a member of the artistic association Caldeira 213 and
the artistic collective ZOiNA, having participated in the creation and
organization of several artistic activities since. She is an assistant
professor at Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de
Viseu since 2007.
Since 2008 has devoted her artistic activity to the Metaverse, working
individually and collaboratively in the Second Life virtual environment
where she held several solo exhibitions and collaborated with artists
from different fields and nationalities. Together with Meilo Minotaur
she is the builder of the Second Life Sim Delicatessen, that held
projects like “de Maria, de Mariana, de Madalena”, “Petrified” and
“Meta_Body”.
“Cocoon Tree and Ophelia”
Artist: DACO MONDAY – Italy
“An artistic pathway, a hymn to utopia, a light, a North star which
leads mankind. My art starts from existential issues and reflections
that occur in the cultural change which affects mankind nowadays.
The art is simply a tool which makes “human knowledge” more human.
It simply disseminates modern global culture, it interprets it as a
multi reality, a reality made up of different individuals, of
interconnected universes that create the dynamism of global universal
culture.” Daco Monday
“Surrealismo 2″
“Metaverse”
Time, space, dimension
dimensions, micro, macro, global, universal
beyond … you do not see
enter into a new dimension
in a new time, space
size, time, space
the telescope breaks time
shows the past
the entrance is an exit
like this the exit is an entrance
the web is a micro-global …
Artist: ROMY NAYAR – Spain/France
“In Real Life, I am the Master of Museology at the Louvre and Oil Artist, spanish nationality, live in Paris.
Curator of the MetaLES Sim with Ux Hax and Lanjran Choche.
SL for me :
“Many speak of a game, other than a hobby … some of perdition …
To me venture into this world is to open the doors to the imagination, a
new medium of expression … and … Full definitely my life.” Romy Nayar
“Tim’s Dreams”
Current Exhibits:
Per4mance MetaLES ..O..
“Tim’s Dreams”
Recent Exhibits:
Anita’s Art Space
“Magic frogs”
http://vimeo.com/39145557
Mysterious Wave
” The Power of Mytery”
http://vimeo.com/49552561
LEA 2
“Further along the Path”
LEA 15 Endowment for the Arts, MetaLES ..O..
Italo Calvino – Invisible Cities Project
“Armilla”
http://invisiblecitiessl.blogspot.fr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-uZsxIMfy0M
LEA 6 Full Sim Art – Series
“You Choose”
http://vimeo.com/36784089
Art & Poetry Project -Museo del Metaverso
Hosted at MetaLES
“Ammore’e Piscatore”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6sr0uSudk0A
http://romynayar.blogspot.com
Artist: HAVEIT NEOX – USA
“I feel that I grew up in a garden. Nearly always a barefoot kid with
stained feet from the earth, I constructed primitive cities with yard
debris, mud, and twigs. Colorful paint and cutout pictures from
magazines enriched the surfaces. Interior and exterior spaces fascinated
me as I observed bugs take up residence. Years later, as an adult and
artist, the cities advanced from their mud origins, to illustrated paper
scrolls, ceramics and metals, and currently to pixels.In Real Life, I
have displayed my artworks mainly in Los Angeles, New York, and Paris.
The theme is often based on urban settings of my own invention. In Dec.
2009, I was lead to the virtual world of Second Life, which I enjoy as
an art studio. For the first time in my life, I now witness people (by
virtue of their avatars) entering and using the spaces I created. In
the context of the city, the interior and exterior spaces both hold my
artwork, and are themselves a habitable exhibit.
This demographic map of the world illustrates the disturbing
foundation for my 3D presentation. It reveals various levels of security
and lack of security for women by way of the map’s gray code. (The free
domain map was taken from Wikipedia. I altered the colors and textures
in Photoshop but left the statistics intact). The wife, children, and
all the surrounds are rendered as colorless paper dolls. This faceless
style emphasizes how they become perceived as “objects”. Of the complex
issues involved with violence against women, I’ve chosen the theme of
woman as property and its damaging consequences. Only the man portrayed
in the sculpture has a degree of realism to him. He is the subject,
while everything else is object. The attitude of seeing women as
property and holding both governing and physical power over them is
shamelessly commonplace throughout the world.” Haveit Neox
“MY PROPERTY” A sculpture
“Apart from my painting and sculpting in RL, I keep my imagination
oiled by constructing 3D installations in SL, ranging from small works
to sim wide presentations*. If you would like to visit my worlds of
Sparquerry or ACC Alpha, please look up the picks on my profile. I have
also pasted a few selected SLURLs below. For information about my
projects, I have an inWorld group called Sparcurious (group key:
6b89e70d-a57c-a60e-1067-c394d72a37a5) and a blog that announces updates.
The blog address is:
http://accalpha.blogspot.com/.
In the mood to travel?
Sparquerry (Ocean level):
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sparquerry/140/24/10
Many thanks to Honour McMillan for her generous invitation to
participate in One Billion Rising, and to Lilia Artis for her
Butterflies on Linen texture, and her valuable feedback while I was
finishing up my piece.” Haveit Neox
* Full sim exhibits:
1. Second Libations
2. A Rusted Development
3. Stirring the Dreams
4. Upcoming (to be announced in March)
Artist: NESSUNO MYOO – Italy
“My name is Nessuno Myoo and born to new life on 21 September 2007.
Immediately I began to wander the land for more disparate trying to meet
all my curiosity about what seemed to me then as a new and powerful
means of emotional communication. Through the courses attended in Second
Learning to INDIRE I have learned to manipulate my first prim. The
meeting with the artist, gallery owner and friend Lion Igaly I was then
introduced into the virtual world of art. Musician and the passion of
the art on rl I found so enthusiastic to do the sculptor in the
metaverse. For my work I have decoded plain language and original that
is expressed in the way of working the prim: the twist, stretch, empty
and then refill my fun so … The wood and metal are mainly the materials
which I favor. Sometimes sanded and polished, and other corroded by
strong contrasts. Different visions for different sensations. With my
essential figurative try to express the beauty, energy, light, movement,
poetry. “ Nessuno Myoo
“Voices”
Here for my new art gallery:
Here for the photos of all my works on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nessuno_myoo/
Here the store on marketpace:
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/120996
Here my gallery at the Destination Guide of SL:
http://secondlife.com/destination/white-gallery?sourceid=dgw1
Here for my blog:
http://toctoccenessuno.myblog.it/
as Nessuno Myoo I found too on:
- Facebook (
http://www.facebook.com/nessuno.myoo )
- YouTube (
http://www.youtube.com/user/NessunoMyoo )
- Twitter (
https://twitter.com/#!/nessunomyoo )
- Pinterest (
http://pinterest.com/nessunomyoo/ )
-Flickr (
http://www.flickr.com/photos/74icarus/sets/72157624406357749/ )
“I have exhibited in SL extensively and at many galleries including
Pyramid, LarsNewArtSpace, Crescent Moon Museum, Aho Museum, Shamen Art
Gallery, Lucid Dreams Art Gallery, Space Art Gallery, UWA 3D Art &
Design Challenge Art Gallery, and many more.”
Artist: BRYN OH – Canada
In her first life, Bryn Oh lives in Toronto, Canada, and makes her
living there as a painter whose work is sold by a major galley to
collectors around the world. Having received her art education in
Toronto and Florence, Italy, her paintings have been exhibited in many
galleries in North America and Europe. A meticulous and highly skillful
landscape painter, she uses high quality oils and acrylics that she
makes herself from raw materials, working the paint with a wide variety
of layering and sculptural brush techniques, on large canvasses that
engulf the viewer in an almost immersive experience of the human impact
on the natural world.
“I am a professional oil painter who has come into second life to
create new media art ideas that don’t work as well in the oil painting
medium.
A “virtual environment” is an installation that takes place in a
virtual world and in some cases it is a “hybrid” which means it is
showing in both a virtual world and real world location at the same
time. So for example Family unit was shown for a month to thousands of
people in the virtual world while also playing on a monitor in a real
world museum in Rome, Italy.” Bryn Oh
Scene from “Imogen and the Pigeons”
Artist: MAYA PARIS – UK
Maya Paris creates interactive art installations on themes including
superheroines thrown into fairytales, funky fembots, people-powered
regenerative energy and the magnificence of the common weed.
“Funky Fembot Rising”
More details about all projects on the blog:
http://mayaparisbluestocking.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mayaparisbluestocking/with/5511786487/
Artist: RAG RANDT – USA
(on behalf of Kiana Writer and MadPea Productions)
RAG Randt is artist/designer/illustrator Richard A Goldberg in RL. In SL, RAG Randt
Rag creates art for the commissioned and licensing markets as well as
stand alone art for art’s sake. Rag’s humorous outlook is the basis of
his work whether it is for a corporate, advertising, publishing,
manufacturing, or individual client.
For his commercial work, Rag is an excellent and skilled problem
solver and collaborator. His many years of experience has helped all
kinds of clients create unique images to sell thier products and
services.
http://www.ragmedia.com
http://www.illoz.com/rag
RAG grew up under the influence of Mad Magazine, Warner Brothers
cartoons, and the New Yorker Magazine. RAG creates artwork for
publishers, advertisers, and corporations. His style translates concepts
into humorous, thought provoking art which enables his client’s
messages to be memorable and effective. RAG also supplies the licensing
industry with images that will amuse, enlighten, and hopefully make the
world a better place for manufactured goods. RAG also has a deep
appreciation of single malt whiskey.
RAG lives and works in Arlington Massachusetts USA which is near Boston.
List of people who worked on the OBR build from MadPea
RAG Randt
Synful Aeon
Yuna Khao
Cold Frog
The following have contributed photos via a photo contest.
Anastacia Eales
Anita Witt
Kimia Kamala
Kalanite Bluestar
Xanna Ziskey
smoochie.snoodle
romeosonlyjuliet Lailoni Haiku
Artist: LORIN TONE – USA
Lorin Tone is a Video Engineer, Composer and Sound Effects artist in RL. His primary avocation in SL is music and sound.
“Billion Rising” work in progress
Honored to have been asked to be a part of this project, he is working
on a build for One Billion and Rising. It will be a multimedia build
regarding Womens’ Rights issues, focusing on recent developments in the
US over the past few years.
Some exhibits will not be pleasant, but he hopes to advance the cause by increasing awareness of ignorant people.
Artist: EUPALINOS UGAJIN – Jupiter
“Could it be the short distance between an idea and a prim ?
When I say I play Second Life people often hastily reply: but it is not REAL!
My answer is: as real as all the tools/objects humanity made.
(If I had to define it…) Real is what might happens when you sit in
front of a tree or anything we did not invent. The usual Virtual vs.
Real opposition does not hold water.
Your inventions/your avatar’s appearance can easily be the meeting
point between two persons who will never “see” each other. Could this be
a more direct connection between our brains while skipping the “how is
the weather?” clothing people tend to use in First Life ?
“A Kou Simulation”
The random (shuffle for music) button is probably the greatest
invention to survive in a world where you receive in one week as much
information as someone living during the 18th century had in a lifetime.
When this button is not present I will somehow try to invent it.” Eupalinos Ugajin
Artist: NOKE YUITZA – Spain
Noke uses the Virtual Worlds as a way to experiment with new supports
for the art. She especially uses a mixed technique of photography and
sculpture. The subjects she explores are based on the emotive concept of
the dual, the divided, the hidden, and the inner reflection. She has
have shown at many virtual galleries and especially enjoys creating
installations as an exploration for the senses.
“Memory Fragment – The Beauty”
