Press Release: Uberverse - A Real-Life/SL Crossover Event

Uberverse is a Second Life/Real Life crossover exhibition . . . being shown in both worlds simultaneously 8-30 March 2013.

The show features artists Morgana Nagorski, Kato Salyut and Sledge Roffo.

Morgana has been working with the gallery owner for some time putting this show together.

The opening event is 9:00PM - midnight SLT on Friday 8 March @ b1 sky gallery, purpose built for the event.

A link to the RL gallery http://www.ballaratart.com/index.php?pageID=1

The opening event will be streamed onto a big screen in the RL gallery . . . so dress in your most glamorous or most weird and wonderful and come and join us and strut your stuff so there is something impressive to be seen on that RL screen.

Even better . . .blog about it.

Slurl: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Prism%20Lila/216/82/603

Crossing the Metaverse

Eymerich Lane and Roselinda Mayo have an amazing sim in Second Life. It is called Roselinda's Paradise. Several times I have covered activities there, including a chess tourney, Christmas fun and also have covered their glorious art collection.

This time, I am amazed at the party to which I was invited recently. Eym and Rose also have a delightful sim named Roselinda's Paradise in the Avination grid. It is as charming as the one in Second Life with gazebos, fountains, and statuary around the sim. Now they have created a bridge between the two worlds.

On Sunday there was a party with music and dancing in both worlds and a chance to talk back and forth to the inhabitants of both worlds. Since I have an avatar in both I was able to attend both parties at the same time. When we first arrived the chatbridge was not working. But with split screens and passing chat back and forth it went well. You can read about the chatbridge here: http://www.intersectionunlimited.com/ourproducts.html .

Qwark Allen played progressive psytrance the first hour in both worlds. He also had an avatar in both grids. There were six artists performing across the metaverse in six hours. This is the first time I have experienced such a party! It seems to be a wave of the future, uniting the grid worlds. Can't wait til the next one!

Gemma Cleanslate

Youtube: Frogg Marlowe & Jaycatt Nico

"Frogg Marlowe and Jaycatt Nico, performing musicians in the virtual world of Second Life, are two of the subjects in the dissertation study of Deborah "Debe" Wise of the University of Colorado Denver. Wise's study is entitled Life as Art: The Interplay of Real and Crafted Identities Among Virtually Performing Musicians in Second Life. The study uses her experience as Flameheart Sol, founder of the House of Flames live music venue in Second Life, to observe normal psychosocial development and subject-object orientation among musicians in the interdependence of real and virtual identities."