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Art Galleries and Museums

Second Life currently hosts a range of Art Galleries and Museums where residents can engage in events, discussions, and displays on a wide range of topics.

For further information on Museum Content in Second Life see: Archives & Museum Informatics: Museums and the Web 2007: Papers: Rothfarb and Doherty, Creating Museum Content and Community in Second Life.

Explore the projects below or Return to the Educational Uses of Second Life Homepage.



Ars Virtua's Gallery and Artist's Residency

Sponsored by the Cadre Laboratory for New Media, Ars Virtua is a new media center and gallery located in Second Life. Since it does not physically exist artists are not limited by physics, material budgets, building codes or landlords and is "... a new type of space that leverages the tension between 3-D rendered game space and terrestrial reality, between simulated and simulation."

The Ars Virtua team have established two locations in Second Life - Dowden (SLurl) and Seventh Eye (SLurl) - which host a permanent collection, as well as a series of new exhibitions. They have also hosted a number of events and conferences in Second Life including Borders, Boundaries & Liminal States - a three day Second Life conference which explored the nature of the synthetic environment.

Additionallly, Ars Virtua supports an Artist in Residence program which supports further exploration of the arts within virtual spaces. Artist working in both Second Life and World of Warcraft have been supported as part of the project.

For further information, visit the Ars Virtua website, check out details of their latest exhibitions or read a blog post about Kliger Dinkin - Ars Virtua's first artist-in-residence.


Open-Source Museum of Open-Source Art (OSMOSA)

Created by a group of students from Brown University in 2007, the OSMOSA Museum was an Open Source Museum of Open Source Art - eg. a museum that was entirely in the public domain.

Anyone could add, modify, or remove art from OSMOSA. Additionally, anyone could add, modify, or remove elements of the OSMOSA building. The project creators' goal is to re-imagine definitions of art, artist, curator, museum, culture, and open source.

For further information visit the OSMOSA Wiki, visit the OSMOSA Blog, read the blog post OSMOSA - opening night for an open source museum... or read the blog post Open-Source Museum Opens in Second Life.



 

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