Virtual art in SL is about freeing oneself up to create in ways impossible in real life. This is documentation of my on-going virtual projects in SL.
Speak Your Mind
Every artist needs to hear feedback from people about her work to see different perspectives on the work. I encourage you to leave comments, ideas and questions on the blog.
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?
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.
Poster announcing my retrospective of SL art for 2007-2009. Six of the artworks featured are shown in the poster. The poster is being give out to friends to post on their own land.
Some experimental audiovisual art at BiW and a chaotic interplay of sights and sounds. I used a variety of media from old art photos, words, reverse-played music, and megaprims roaming the sim. The text is based on a quote by Marshall Mcluhan. I suppose the work was meant as reaction to the many small, self-contained artworks on the BiW sim and I felt the need to comment by breaking down perspective and a sense of direction within the sim (ie. more sl, less rl connotations of ground and sky.)
Drips and Drops is an abstract fantasy space full of gigiantic swirlies, happy bubbles and my sons eerie cello noises. This is about joy, plain and simple. I originally built this installation in December 2007 and recently rerezzed it Brooklyn is Watching on March 2009. More photos up at http://www.flickr.com/photos/lancesh/sets/72157603551616394/
