Amy Wilson, a talented artist, has just self-published her first catalogue, titled: Postcards from Second Life. I'm still leery about the whole Second Life thing. Though what she's done, by adding life and art to a virtual world is both thought-provoking and subtly subversive - like a grenade wrapped in a pretty pink bow. I definitely recommend it!
Friday, June 29, 2007
Postcards From Second Life...
Amy Wilson, a talented artist, has just self-published her first catalogue, titled: Postcards from Second Life. I'm still leery about the whole Second Life thing. Though what she's done, by adding life and art to a virtual world is both thought-provoking and subtly subversive - like a grenade wrapped in a pretty pink bow. I definitely recommend it!
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hi andrew...thanks for sharing this work from amy...i have grown to love her work via your blog and link to her site...again thank you
I think it's a great little book. I was so happy when it finally came in the mail. SO HAPPY! Amy Wilson is a really great person, who's very smart, funny, and aware. I respect her and her work quite a bit.
I'm going to try and corner her at the SVA building after one of her classes and get her to sign my book. She had a book signing in Second Life. I don't know exactly how that would work... but in theory it sounds pretty cool.
Very intriguing. I don't know much about the game, except for the run-down that my sons gave me (they don't play it, due to frustrations with it when they did try it), but I was able to see some of Amy's postcards on Flickr and I loved reading her perspective on how things were done in the game and how they might have been different...eye opening and thought provoking...good stuff!
The weirdest thing to me is that a lot of people I've spoken to about Second Life don't consider it a game. Many of them claim that it is an "alternative lifestyle." I really don't get that. Or perhaps, I don't want to get it. I tried out the very early versions of thise technology ages ago and it was addictive then... I imagine this new, shiny version is even more addictive and more seductive in it's escape from reality.
I was starting to reply, and then realized that I wanted to know more...so I found this...http://elliptic.typepad.com/
elliptic_blog/2004/01/second_life_add.html
I think you could technically say that it's not a game, as it doesn't have a goal, but then if a person is playing it in place of living their 'real life' than there's serious trouble there. I do think, though, that if a person has that kind of trouble that leads them to be addicted to a virtual reality, than they needed help in the first place... I guess it's too big of a subject to generalize...but scary...it's probably more accessible to a lot of people than drugs, and maybe seems more 'respectable' and therefore easier to fall into. Maybe it's easier to get out of, too, given that there is no physical addiction?
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