Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Art projects in SL
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What Is the Metaverse? And Why Should the Art World Care? is a new-ish episode from The Art Angle, the podcast from acclaimed art world news site ArtNet. I had a great time (despite an allergy flare-up) talking with host Tim Schneider, who interviews me alongside art curator Tina Rivers Ryan and artist Sara Ludy,…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Can I love a Second Life photographer simply because her pictures make me giggle and sometimes even laugh out loud? Yes, yes I can. Ambre Singh’s picture is cute but when you add the title “Sitting on the Duck of the Bay”…
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From AM Radio's Flickr Update, 7/15: Bumped up as long-ish weekend read and conversation for the weekend! Jeffrey Berg, the artist and technologist who became famous as the Metaverse artist known as "AM Radio", a Second Life avatar who created profoundly surreal and poignant immersive installations like "The Faraway" (above), a rusty train lost in…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting There is a new event in town: Acclaimed metaverse photographer Whiskey Monday has created a new shop-and-hop event focused on art. It’s called Curated and goes for ten days a month. It’s covered here at Seraphim, the event guide blog with all…
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Oh, Canada: Home to great government-sponsored healthcare, and now, noteworthy metaverse art. Click here to teleport to Immersivist, the Second Life sim of longtime metaverse artist Bryn Oh, whose new experience, "Lobby Cam", is brought to us by the Canada Council for the Arts. (Watch the mixed reality trailer above.) "When applying for a Canada…
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Faith in Persona is a pretty banging experimental pop album with a top-rated track from rising indie artist Keith Rankin aka Giant Claw, and if the album cover seems familiar, there's a very good reason for that: It's drawn directly from works by beloved Second Life-based artist Whiskey Monday (with her full permission of course).…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting “Me gusta cuando callas” is a picture by Pedro for a multi-artist exhibition in Second Life [teleport here] and an online picture book celebrating the poetry of Pablo Neruda. It is called “A Thousand Words” and challenges the artists to give a…
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Violet Evergarden may be dissatisfied with this homage to artist Francesca Woodman but I love it and think it is an excellent recreation of Woodman’s famous untitled work — view the original here. Writes Violet: “The picture has been made entirely in SL, the background textures taken from the photo directly and then pasted on…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting //embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js Heidi Rewell gives her pictures the best titles on Flickr. I mean, even if they were not good pics, you would want to look just for the titles. But they are good pictures, so bonus! Take “Did you know that? Some…
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Click here at 1pm SLT tomorrow (Saturday July 24) for a special event in the G.B.T.H. gallery featuring acclaimed SL-based artist Whiskey Monday. Whiskey herself will be there to help unveil a new series of her works with a cool mixed reality twist — alongside a classic series with a cross-platform hook. For the "In…
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