Through the Virtual Looking Glass
I am working on a project which is kind of snowballing lately and was wondering if anyone knows a gallery that wants to get in on this. I have pasted part of a letter below which explains it a wee bit. There is a website forthcoming. I will be placing embedded electronic components and am leading a virtual collaboration which you can see a trailer of and participate in here.
http://arsactual.com/collab/
> I am writing to invite you to participate in a series of international
> exhibitions in the month of April, 2010 the purpose of which is to introduce
> the art currently being made in such Virtual Worlds as Second Life, OpenSim,
> and VastPark to real life audiences. The project originated at my university,
> the University of Massachusetts at Boston. The art gallery on our campus, the
> Harbor Gallery, will be hosting a month-long exhibition of virtual art this
> April, mostly presented with large scale computer screens, digital projectors,
> and digital frames, though we will also show prints of virtual work as well as
> physical sculptures inspired by virtual art, some with embedded electronic
> components. I organized the exhibition to coincide with an online course I am
> teaching next term titled, Art and Philosophy in Second Life and Other Virtual
> Worlds.
>
> Recently a number of galleries located in different countries have asked me if
> they could host similar exhibitions in April under the title we are using in
> Boston, Through the Virtual Looking Glass, as part of a connected set of
> international exhibitions. We now have galleries in France and Holland
> committed to hosting exhibitions in those countries, as well venues in Germany
> that will host real life literary events that will be streamed into a virtual
> literary cafe in Second Life. Key figures in the virtual art world are now
> exploring the possibility of holding similar exhibitions in Italy, Brazil, and
> Mexico.
Hoping to hear from you soon.
>
>
> Best,
>
> Gary Zabel
> Department of Philosophy
> University of Massachusetts at Boston