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Dizzy Banjo: Gestural Music Experiment 1
SLART®
FESTIVAL of THE
ARTS
August
24th—September 20, 2008
in Artropolis
and Blue Fusion
You can
play Dizzy Banjo's interactive instrument with two of your friends at the
SLART Summer Festival of the Arts. Adam Ramona has a musical sculpture
installed that you can play with or set to automatic. Sasun Steinbeck's
Morphing Sculpture also has manual and automatic modes, with a control
panel that allows you to change its colors, sounds, and motion.
The
complete list of artists is in the catalog, which is described below.
The SLART
Summer Festival was organized by Artropolis impresario Filthy Fluno
and Slart Enterprises founder ArtWorld Market. It includes live
musical performances in several genres, and an exhibition of virtual
artworks. A catalog
of the event is available free during the festival in SL as a SLART
Publication.
The
festival kicked off with a reception at the real world SLART Enterprises
headquarters in Stockport, NY, where one room in the gallery had a
54" screen with surround sound for the performances in Blue Fusion
and Artropolis by Cylindrian Rutabaga, Jaynine Scarborough, and Eyewall
Paine.
Many of the guests had never seen the Second Life®
virtual world before, and were amazed by the sight, as well as by the
quality of the performances and the sound quality.
There were so many avatars at the in-world event that
some people had difficulty getting in. That day many could not even log on
to SL, including scheduled performer Juel Resistance. We are working to
reschedule Juel for another time. That may have been due to there being
over 67,000 people simultaneously online.
Filthy and
ArtWorld will both be at the Second Life Community Conference (SLCC) in
Tampa September 5th through 7th, presenting in the Business Track.
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SLART®
PUBLICATIONS
The Book of
the Future is now Available
Slart
Enterprises has issued the first of its new series of virtual book products
that dispense objects, give notecards with landmarks that enable
teleportation to specific locations, and open media in web browsers and
related applications, including music and video.
The
book is a catalog of the 2008 SLART Summer Festival of the Arts. You can get
a free copy of it by visiting the festival and simply clicking on one of the
big posters for it set out at various locations in Artropolis.
This
catalog will give you artworks by participating artists, or take you to
their websites, or give you a notecard that will teleport you to their other
locations to see more of their works.
Some of the objects are permanent artworks that are
"freebies" created just for this book. Others are "Demo"
models or temporary works that you can "rez" or set up in your own
location, that will appear for a certain amount of time and then vanish. If
you want to have those permanently, you will have to buy them from the
artist, or contact SLART Gallery to assist you in the purchase.
In
the future, we are planning to have catalogs that will enable you to
purchase artworks directly from a catalog page.
Educational
Books
We are also
planning a series of educational books, and in the long term, an
encyclopedia. Imagine a biology book that dispenses a giant cell you
can walk and fly around in, or a model of the human body that you can peel
layers off, or render transparent, with a beating heart and lungs that
expand and contract.
A
book on ancient history can dispense Greek triremes and armor, as well as
the weapons, buildings, and costumes of the various factions, enabling a
class to re-enact historic battles.
A
book on dinosaurs can give animated ones that are in the correct
proportion. You can be eaten by a Tyrannosaurus, or picked up and
flown away by a Pterodactyl.
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The SLART
in-world book
is available in Second Life.
Get it at the
SLART
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.
The beautifully
printed archival paper limited edition
SLART®
publication is available. Click here
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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 galerķas ...
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Free
SLART®
BUSINESS
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.
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THIS
WEEK'S PICKS
Because of the
Slart Festival and SLCC, full reviews of these shows may not appear until
after the week of Sept. 8.
Alizarin
Goldflake: Night
Light
When I
got into this artwork I immediately felt more relaxed. Why? My thery is that
it has to do with mirror
neurons. After SLCC I will write more about this, but meanwhile, try it
yourself.
Alizarin Goldflake: Night
Light.
When you
arrive, right click and "sit here."
Feathers
Boa at Artis
Gallery
For this
artist proximity to the picture is not just a gimmick. As you move closer
the image changes, and for each work, the change has meaning that relates to
the metaphor expressed in the title.
Feathers Boa: Take me
away seen at a distance.
Feathers Boa: Take me
away as you approach the artwork.
Patrick
Cournoyer, the gallery owner, has other good work on view, so look outside
the gallery at the interactive and scripted sculptures while there.
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SLART®
BUSINESS
HOW TO
PRESERVE LARGE BUILDS
Following
the disappearance of Zero Point [read
the article], we have been looking into how residents of the
Second Life virtual world can protect their assets.
click
here to read
how to preserve your virtual investment
SLART®
BUSINESS
Art Gallery Growth
Resumes
after six month
flatline
chart courtesy of Sasun
Steinbeck, data is updated monthly
There are
now over 500 art galleries in the Second Life world, according to Sasun
Steinbeck, creator of the Art Gallery Owners Group. As the chart above
makes graphically clear, the number of confirmed galleries stayed about
the same from the end of 2007 until May, 2008.
Confirmed
galleries must display the Art Galleries of Second Life Kiosk, which
dispenses the gallery list and HUD that enables gallery goers to visit
every gallery in the Group. This is an awesome tool if you have not used
it, and is the best way to discover what hundreds of artists are currently
doing. It is possible that the gallery growth rate continued during the
flatline period, but was not apparent because new gallery owners had not
become aware of the Group or had not configured their kiosk properly.
A New
Art Gallery Map
Sasun has
just created a website-based interactive Second Life art gallery map. It
has zoom and position tools, you can click and drag the map, and the mousewheel will zoom in and out.
You also can enter a region name at the top of the screen to
find galleries in that region. If you click on one of the
"buttons" that identify gallery locations, the name of the
gallery pops up, along with the gallery owner and type of gallery, with a
link to "teleport now" to the gallery. There is also a
database generated list of galleries that you can sort in several ways.
With nearly 500 locations it may take a minute or two to load them all,
and there is an "update map" button at the bottom that will
refresh it. Sasun is still testing it, so please report any bugs. It
is here.
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