In Boston Cyberarts Blog

http://bostoncyberartsblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/im-not-here-by-juria-yoshikawa.html

Cyber-Flavor-Mashup at CounterpART Gallery

"Cyber-Flavor-Mashup"
April 26 - May 9 2008
Reception Sunday, April 26 5 - 8 pm
CounterpART Gallery
128 Merrimack St. 2nd Floor, Lowell, MA 01852
781-541-0470

A mixed reality mashup of immersive, 3D and 2D artworks created and inspired by the virtual world of Second Life for the 2009 Boston Cyberarts Festival. Featured artists, Misprint Thursday, Juria Yoshikawa, Bella Renfold, Filthy Fluno, Esch Snoats, Lily and Honglei, and Anna Shapiro will show how they are utilizing virtual worlds to create new artforms and engage new audiences. Participants at the gallery will have the opportunity to interact with both real and virtual art happenings and artworks for the festival.

Live cybersound artists and musician "Active" from Brooklyn NYC will be performing throughout the evening, as well as SL musicians via the gallery’s multimedia sound system. The island/art community of Artropolis, Boston Cyberarts Festival's inworld portal to the virtual exhibition, will also be on display throughout the evening.

Gallery website
About the exhibition in Boston Cyber Arts
Location in Second Life

Art that Functions on Many Levels

My virtual installation "I'm Not Here" is about to officially open at RL venue CounterpART Gallery which is a part of Boston Cyber Arts Festival starting April 24. I've taken countless images in the two light space-sculptures since I first rezzed it two years ago. This is a new shot taken in the rerez at Kennesaw State University sim located here: http://slurl.com/secondlife/VWDEV%20ITEC%20ISLE/80/216/24/ One of the ideas of this installation is that the art functions on many levels: virtual installation and space, 2D photos taken within the spaces and shown on the wall panels in SL and more recently starting in two days actual prints of the images shown in the RL gallery in Lowell, MA. If people buy some of the prints, they will be hung on their home or office walls and this will be another level. All of these are experiences in themselves and raise such questions as what is here and now, what is art, what is this experience I'm having right now?

First Time to Sell SL Art in RL!

I'll be showing and selling my SL art in real life for the first time during the Boston Cyber Arts Festival at CounterpART Gallery. My SL installation "I'm Not Here" will be featured in Boston Cyber Arts, shown as a SL-RL link up in the gallery allowing viewers to experience it in SL. The images being sold are of the same work.

CounterpART Gallery is run by Jeff Lipsky (Filthy Fluno in SL). If you're near Boston, come check out the show April 23 to May 10.

Why not buy a print and be one of the first people to own a real life Juria Yoshikawa artwork?

Also here's a news release from Boston Cyber Arts with mention of my work.