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Join us this Thursday evening from 6-9pm as the Node Zero Gallery takes the Second Life art experience to a new level with its latest collection of interactive exhibits from 8 emerging new artists.
(Sponsored by The Wishfarmers.)
Spot Draves (SL-Sp0t Schism), creator of the Electric Sheep Screensaver, will be there in person for a live Q and A session at 7pm.
“Sheep Vortex” is digital artist Spot Draves’ first Second Life art experience (3D Art & Design by Somatika Xiao – a.k.a. David Stumbaugh). Note: You will have to have version 1.19.0.0 or later running.
(Remember to click your “play” button, and have video enabled in your “Preferences” under the “Audio & Video” tab.)
In addition to Spot’s creation, this Node Zero Collection features the work of no less than seven emerging new talents: Georg Janick, Feathers Boa, Bryn Oh, Adam Ramona, Aiyas Aya, Ub Yifu, and Crash Perfect. (Keep an eye on the Node Zero Gallery category for more interviews with the artists.)
I can’t tell you how to interact with these ones yet, or I’d be giving it all away. I’ll let the art pieces explain it to you themselves…
| Sp0t Schism (Spot Draves) in the Sheep Vortex |
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| Cory Doctorow says: “This is a distributed rendering application that grabs its users’ computers’ idle cycles to create computationally expensive, vivid and beautiful animated fractals…The result is a breathtaking, psychedelic form of artificial life whose fitness factor is the ability to tickle the aesthetics of computer geeks.”
(and about Spot’s DVD): “This isn’t just trippy wallpaper — it’s not even just art. This is garage-band artificial life. Draves is cooking up a new species made of code, decision and cooperation, and this disc is a petri dish swimming with the organisms that deserve to succeed us here on Earth. I for one welcome our new a-life masters.” |
The main Node Zero Gallery is also always open.
(Note: Click on the big doors to enter the gallery after your teleport lands you in the front entrance area.)
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Spot’s work is currently featured on the MOMA website and was also featured on the cover of this month’s Leonardo. Here’s the first part of a multipart interview with Spot, where he explains some of the background and technology behind the making of these artistic marvels. I’ll also be interviewing a few of the other featured artists over these next few days leading up to the opening — and taking you on tours through some of their interactive pieces. |
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BTW: Note that Spot and the Electric Sheep Screensaver are not affiliated in any way with the Electric Sheep Second Life development company.– Just FYI. Everybody asks 🙂
This post and all the art in it is under the same Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic license, as is all of Spot‘s art.