Monday, December 26, 2011

Second Life Art - InterAct! (Linden Endowment for the Arts)

LEA

I flew in to explore LEA, the Linden Endowment for the Arts. On first glance, it looks like nothing but sea, but one can walk on the watery surface to explore several different installations in the area.

LEA4 Glyph Graves

I saw a great big spinning sculpture by Glyph Graves entitled Diversity - A Tapestry Spun - I sat on a box and watched the petals spin around and around...

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This installation may not seem exceptionally out of the box in any particular way, however, Glyph Graves is also responsible for another great work in which he uses kinect to capture his face and instantiates it in 3D in second life - read here or here, or see the following video for more:



LEA Sound

And a sound installation by Lorin Tone. You can touch the speakers to change the sound samples attached to each one. The execution is simplistic and perhaps a bit too literal for me but I am sure you can see the applications of this method for other sound works...

Read more about the Linden Endowment for the Arts

SLurl: Teleport Now to LEA

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