Simon Biggs wrote: > This sounds like a perfect opportunity for a RL museum to enter SL and > establish an in-world facility to preserve and disseminate such work. > Are there any museum curator’s lurking on this list – a Rudolf > Frieling, David Ross or Steve Dietz? > > Regards > > Simon > > > On 24/2/09 16:29, "Alan Sondheim" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > > Simon Biggs > Research Professor > edinburgh college of art > s.biggs@ eca .ac.uk > www. eca .ac.uk > www. eca .ac.uk/circle/ > > [email protected] > www.littlepig.org.uk > AIM/Skype: simonbiggsuk > > Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number > SC009201 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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