Hi Simon,
Originally I was to have the space for an exhibition in July, 2008. This was through Sugar Seville, who ran the space (see below); I met her through Ian Ah, who also runs OCAD (Ontario College of Art and Design Hybrid). Sugar liked the work enough to turn the space over to me for a long residency, which originally was to end in November, then December, then the end of February. After that Sugar seemed to drop out of Second Life; none of us heard from her - I think I had 2 emails over months. I wrote repeatedly asking for a definite answer regarding the end of the installation and didn't hear (wrote her in email and IM in Second Life). Yesterday she suddenly opened up the space - all of the Odyssey sim - for anyone to change any piece. I found her online and convinced her to rescind the opening for a week. At the same time Doncoyote Antonelli had put up a large piece which enveloped mine; Sugar eventually took that down. She said she hadn't heard from me because her email was down and was apologetic, but the result of course is that the original length of stay on Odyssey is observed, and the piece won't be mine, whatever else it might be, after the end of this month. I'm doing as much documenting as I can. The head of a dance technology group here was also going to do a documentary on it; I'm not sure what will happen there. I'm grateful for the time I've had - Sugar repeatedly said it was the most interesting piece in SL and that's why she chose to keep it up. She also said she wouldn't be doing any more curating after the installation. That's the story. Ian Ah, OCAD Minotaur, has opened up a space for me at the Hybrid digital campus of OCAD and I have a piece up there; I might try to move some of the Odyssey installation as well (it's fairly modular), but I don't know how long that space is available. What I'd need of course would be a more or less permanent installation in SL, at least for a few years, but rentals are high and we have no money (I'm not university affiliated of course). I'm going to speak to Ian about this space, but I'm not all that optimistic for the long term - it's a learning environment. I hope you can keep the material on the installation in the article; I can send you images and video, but that's about it. Apologies, and thank you! yours, Alan Hi Alan Why are you taking this down? I have just written a report on SL, in which your project features. It will be a pity if it isn?t there when people go to find it! It?s probably the most interesting thing in SL (strangely SL is too much like RL for my taste). Regards Simon _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
