Mindscape

When the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education event took place a few weeks ago, there were a number of exhibits. While the main goal of the event was education, there was also one to entertain through art, "Mindscape." Asmita Duranjaya, the owner of InterstellART, organized this effort with fifteen artists behind it. Gemma Cleanslate went over, and took a look.

Read Gemma's story in Design.

CDS Museum of Contemporary Art Celebrates New Exhibit

On Saturday August 3, there was a party at the Museum of Contemporary Art in the Confederation of Democratic Simulators. The event was to celebrate a new exhibit there. The event was from Noon to 2PM SL time. DJ Lyubov played the music.

The museum is at Neufreistadt (178/138/183), and was founded in 2006 with seven displays of art.

There were a number of conversations at the event, such as the cheese and wine available, and about how the Japanese see art and what's considered erotic to most there. Among the people there was the CDS Chancellor Kyoko. She told the group, "tomorrow I have an opening of my own work at InterstellART."

Thanks to a power outage, yours truly couldn't be at the opening of Kyoko's exhibit on Sunday, though I was able to drop by later. InterstellART is described as "dedicated to interstellar cyber art," and is maintained by self-described "cyber-artist" Asmita Duranjaya. Kyoko's art there can be found at Nice Atoll (123/220/1080) .

Bixyl Shuftan

Environmental Art Delivers a Sobering Message at Ecoscape

For most of its history, Mankind was at the mercy of the environment while having little impact on it. While Man could occasionally cause ecological damage, it was on a local level. But in the past century, it's become more obvious more powerful tools made possible by recent technologies in addition to more humans on the planet are having an impact on the global ecology. The question is, how much? Klaus Bereznyak recently went to InterstellART and saw EcoScape, an art exhibition with works from eight different artists about environmental issues. So what did the exhibits show?

Read Klaus' story in Design.

Unmissable Art for January

Klaus Bereznyak has been keeping an eye on what's been going on with the art and culture scene of Second Life. While there's plenty that deserves attention, he came across three that in his opinion are must-see. One is "Visions of Beauty" by Paula Cloudpainter. Next is the Montara Bridgeworks Gallery by Pearl Grey. Last but not least is InterstellART by artists Sanjeewa Kumara and Sujeewa Kumari of Sri Lanka.

Read Klaus' article in Design.