This post has an addendum responding to comments by Bryn Oh on her blog made during June. In response I staged an art intervention on Lobby Cam, which seemed appropriate in the circumstances. Bryn Oh opened her new exhibition on Immersiva today, Lobby Cam. I remember her once talking about how Second Life art was […]
Start the Week, a programme on BBC Radio 4 staged an interesting conversation on Monday (now on iplayer 1) based around a book by Susan Pinker; The Village Effect: Why Face-to-Face Contact Matters 2. In it, she argues that social isolation – measured in absolute terms and not how people perceive their own position – […]
I’m looking at ‘Sacrifice’ by Osferatus Haven, at Morpheus. It’s a set piece diorama; flickering flames, but otherwise it’s a static installation. A couple of blood-lusty creatures face each other while desperate hands reach up from the ground and corpses lie round and about. By coincidence, I’d come across a journal article1 a little earlier […]
‘All our language is composed of brief little dreams; and the wonderful thing is that we sometimes make of them strangely accurate and marvelously reasonable thoughts. . . ‘What should we be without the help of that which does not exist? Very little. . . . ‘And our unoccupied minds would languish if fables, mistaken […]
The enchantment is in the meeting of minds over distance, the imagined physical, aware of but not seen. The caress through the whisper of ether – the touch of an idea, the merest flicker, a response that is mediated, intrigued, curious. The details we wish to share is what is important, a gift given freely. […]
Earlier this month, the garden designer, Dan Pearson, was the guest on Desert Island Discs 1 on Radio 4. Early on he spoke about what he thought of gardens: I think they are a place of escape, and a place of immersion. They are somewhere where you can be yourself, completely. I think they provide you […]
I’ve spent quite a bit of time recently looking at the Linden Endowment for the Arts (LEA) sims, but a couple of nights ago I moved off them and headed towards Black Basalt Beach and L’Arc-en-Ciel. I also recently came across a chapter in a book called ‘The Technology of Enchantment and the Enchantment of […]
The fantastical, created out of Cica Ghost’s imagination – her new creation is Little Town. It’s a delight to find these places. With fantasy, the questions of childhood memory, nostalgia and playfulness are probably at their strongest. You are invited in on a fairy tale pretense – the occupants have gone away for the day, […]
