Welcome to SLART: a critical review and journal of the Virtual Arts

The beautifully printed archival paper limited edition SLART^® publication is available. Click here.

A major exhibition of Hyperformalism opens in the Second Life^® world on May 17, 12 Noon PDT at the
New Media Consortium

Kiss the Sky

SLART Editor ArtWorld Market previews an exceptional group show

Above: elros Tuominen's Colourfield is a continuously changing colorscape.

An exhibition that bills itself as "the definitive exhibition of Hyperformalism" opens this week at the NMC Arts Lab. Titled "Kiss the Sky," it was curated by Dancoyote Antonelli (DC Spensley), who is also represented by several works. DC coined the word Hyperformalism, and has assembled 35 pieces by 14 artists to demonstrate that the concept reflects a new art movement.

It includes works by Chance Abattoir, Vlad Bjornson, nand Nerd, Selavy Oh, Adam Ramona, Nebulosus Severine, AngryBeth Shortbread, Sasun Steinbeck, Sabine Stonebender, Seifert Surface, elros Tuominen, Juria Yoshikawa, and i7o Zhu.

Hyperformalism takes the sort of approach that Albers did with his Homage to the Square, Kandinsky with Point and Line to Plane, or Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook. A musical equivalent would be Bach's Well Tempered Clavier. Each of these employed formal principles in the creation of art, often using mathematical relationships.

It was natural for artists to expand this sort of methodology into the virtual realm, and this awesome exhibition presents some of the best work done using the building tools provided within the Second Life world.

continue reading this review

==========

MONDAYS, 6:30 PM SLT
ART TALKS

PleaseWakeMeUp Idler conducts Art Talks Mondays at 6:30 at Mandel'BRAT's and BREW in Artropolis. Subjects range from protecting your intellectual property rights to critiques of artworks.

Parallel Worlds: Explorations in "Second Life"

The Aperture Foundation sponsored a panel discussion on art in SL at The New School in New York City on February 13th, 2008.

The panelists were Fred Ritchin, NYU professor and a contributing editor of Aperture; Michael Van Horn, curator of the Joseph Monsen Collection in Seattle; Richard Minsky, founder of SLART magazine; and Michael Schmelling, photographer.

Click here to view the online video of all the presentations.
Tip: click "play clip" and you can navigate the video with the little button on the slide bar.

==========

SLART^® Video Tour of the
Second Life^® Art World
Now Playing

The live SL art tour at Location One
is now playing in Second Life at a theater near you.

==========

The in-world book
is available in Second Life.
Get it at the Artropolis Outpost.
You can get a single copy for L200 or a 3-pack for 50% off.

Great features: click the inside of the cover and a menu appears with the contents. You can go directly to an article without turning pages, or close the book. You can also click on the edge when reading a page to bring up this menu. On the last pages there are hyperlinks that will open this website for current reviews and news.

Arthole
A collaborative art space in Second Life
by Nebulosus Severine & Arahan Claveau

In Ichibot Nishi's λ.mnemonic, Silence writes itself on the wall in breasts
and then floats off.

Arthole is a set of three sky galleries in the Second Life^®world, each with a different theme. One has older work by Arthole's creators, Nebulosus Severine and Arahan Claveau. The second has current work, and the third is for guest artists.

continue to full review

teleport to Arthole

==========

Free Download: The Art World Market of Second Life^® (PDF)
Paper on the Business of Art in SL
presented at SLCC August 25, 2007
Over 10,000 downloads of this paper since then.

==========

Read about SLART^® products and services in the Media

STEP Inside Design, March-April 2008, Vol. 24 No. 2
"Virtual Artworks" by Ina Saltz, pp. 14-17
ARTnews, February, 2008: All the Web's a Stage
UgoTrade: Soho + Second Life = Sexy!
Location One: Live tour of the SL Art World (video)
Studio 360 ( (PRI): Kurt Andersen interview (audio)
DIE ZEIT: Pixel und Papier
Financial Times Deutschland: Second Life - das ist Beuys...
Smithsonian Museum Eye Level: Second Life Meets...
Hrag Vartanian: Art in Second Life, an interview with ...
ARTNET: FIRST-RATE ART IN "SECOND LIFE"
ARTKRUSH: Mag Tracks Art of Second Life
CIBERESCRITURAS 2-17-07 Slart: magazine y galer�as ...

==========

Join the SLART Magazine group in-world to receive notices

Welcome to MAGAZINE a critical review and journal of the virtual arts				WHAT IS REAL?
click on these links for:	Features	BLOG	Editorials	Contact