well i'd be interested except for being already over-committed already in my own virtual factory ... : )
i've also been participating in the empyre discussion on second life & like you it isn't an environment that grabs me. it's been fun to get to know it a bit better, & to do the gallery tours with others; & i'm really happy with my tail : ) but in terms of a creative platform i'm much more comfortable & creative in UpStage or Visitors Studio ... will be interesting to see what happens with SL. h : ) >Very funny, as an old activist (four years in jail, etc, etc), I am >fully conscient nothing can be achieved by sheer will or alone. >Bauhaus was the expression of a special time, the Weimar republic and >it's contradictions, the Factory was the expression of Warhol carisma >and his need of an arena for his own productions. We need other >expressions and other arenas, I am discussing in -empyre the value of >the new virtual worlds as frames for activism and art. Many argue than >Second Life can transform itself to one of those creative hubs I long >to, but I have been in SL several times and never been attracted to >it, a bit too sterile and chic for me :) >But I am game if someone is interested in a virtual or not virtual Bauhaus... >Ana > >On 8/30/07, Helen Varley Jamieson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> please don't wait for it, make it happen if it's what you really want ... >> >> h : ) >> >> >I was in Faces myself, but never found it was useful to generate new >> >thinking, it was most linking and socializing among women who knew >> >each other. But it was not a great collaborative place... >> >I think Marc's Furtherfield, Post.Thing, -empyre are this list are for >> >me the places where I find myself most intellectual nutrition. >> >Faces was (is?) most a linking to people's projects but not a >> >discussion place. >> >I am still waiting for a net Bauhaus, a net The Factory... >> > > > >Ana -- ____________________________________________________________ helen varley jamieson: creative catalyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.creative-catalyst.com http://www.avatarbodycollision.org http://www.upstage.org.nz http://www.writerfind.com/hjamieson.htm ____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
