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[edit] Welcome to the Brooklyn is Watching Wiki!

This is the list of nominees for the "best of BIW year 1 show. We're cut it off at March 27th 2009 (technically that's slightly more than a year but its when we finished the week of our 52nd podcast so that's a good place to break it.

Podcast participants will pick 20 works from this list and open voting on the blog will pick 10 for a total of 30 to fill out "30 Best" a show on the KU sim. From that 30 the celebrity judges panel will select five for the "final five" show at Jack the Pelican Presents.

HONOR SYSTEM - DO NOT DELETE anyone else's nominations


[edit] AIYAS AYA

Avatar Sculpture #1

"The aim of this piece is to incorporate audience avatars as an integral part of a sculptural form. I am creating sculpture using the avatars of participants; the piece requires interaction in order to be completed." Aiyas Aya


Word Tree


[edit] ALLY AEON

Virtual Formalism

"It’s a layered collection of intersecting lines in various vibrant colors; you can choose one of four sets of colors by clicking it and choosing from a menu. The textures shift (I spotted texture movement, rotation, and changes of texture repeat), causing the lines and colors to interact in interesting ways; it gets a lot out of seven prims. The effect is not fully describable, and certainly impossible to capture in a still picture; you’ll just have to come to BiW to see it yourself. I find it fascinating to watch; if you like this kind of abstract formal work I believe you will also." Shirley Marquez


[edit] DANCOYOTE ANTONELLI a.k.a. DC Spensley

NOTE: some artworks removed because they were added after the July 1 deadline for nominations- a real shame because they were some important works- i put them at the bottom of this page because part of the point here is to document what happened at BIW not just nominations for the best of show.


SWARM

"SWARM, by DC Spensley is a sculptural feedback system intended to be used socially, requiring cooperation between two or more viewers. While some viewers walk over the multicolored cones and to direct the SWARM. Other viewers teleport to a platform to view the SWARM in action."

SWARM Curtain


The Haystack (so called on the BiW Blog, but DC calls this MegaFlora 008

"This assembly evolved over a few weeks tenure at BiW, as part of a series of low frequency performances. (performances that span days, weeks and longer."


Negative Space

"DanCoyote’s latest large thing in the sky. This one has rings of various shades and densities of blue rings, ranging from light to dark and some more transparent than others."



MegaFlora 017

"Like many of Dancoyote’s larger works, this one mutates over time. The picture (below) was taken on Tuesday afternoon; when I returned to the island on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, the work looked significantly different. One look isn’t enough to tell the entire story about a work like this; you need to view it multiple times to see the changes. It also rewards looking from different positions: from above and below, inside and outside." Shirley Marquez


Tomb Maze

"...a challenge to the patience of people to wangle their way through the solid space."


Tower of Light

This is an easy one to nominate right off the top because it's so well documented by this video:


VerySillyMilliTude

"...the point of the work is to spoof the quality of verisimilitude that shadows and concrete texture may evoke. As the user walks through the rows the spheres move around perterbing the lighting. The lighting is one of the key points of the piece beyond the spoof of manufacturing “reality” or what many refer to as “remediation”." DanCoyote Antonelli


pixelboard2_001

This work was one of DC's earliest contributions to BIW and was a fun and interactive work.


[edit] SOLKIDE AUER

Big Bang


Black Pearl

From most positions, the Black Pearl is a collection of interlaced silver arcs. View the Pearl from the correct angle from any of four sides (imagine the sides of a cube, though the Pearl is round) and the reason for its name emerges. View it from the top for a different look at the Pearl; the bottom might yield yet another effect, but the floor gets in the way. Full appreciation of the Pearl will give your camera skills an excellent workout!


Radiations (Radiazioni)

Solkide’s last piece at Brooklyn is Watching, Black Pearl, played with arcs and the spaces between them. Radiazioni (Radiations) is a further examination of that theme, and also adds broad lines radiating from the center of the piece. The eye is led into the black negative space between the arcs.


Spitfire

Solkide may be moving into awkward ground here; enough representation to be not purely abstract or “hyperformal” (as Dancoyote would say), but not enough to offer a coherent story. I continue to enjoy Solkide work with form; I’m just a bit confused this time. But then, sometimes good art is confusing.


There is a Crazy World Outside

"Indeed this is a lovely work. Sometimes in new media it is easy to become distracted by what is possible rather than seeing mastery of the medium sitting quietly right in front of you. This work is beautifuly realized, and like Kolor Fall’s “between the waves”, manages to feel complete and self contained without shouting. The artist could of course make it spin or flash - which is so easy in SL that everyone is doing it. That they’ve chosen to give it stillness I think gives it more depth (considering the title). Art practice is as much about what you choose to leave out as what you choose to include. I think this piece stands on its own." Pavig Lok on August 2nd, 2008


[edit] GAZIRA BABELI

Avatar on Canvas

“But the most radical violation is that of Avatar on Canvas (March 2007), a series of three Francis Bacon paintings where the main figure has been replaced by a three-dimensional chair. This is an implicit invitation to sit down, but when we do, our avatar is subjected to hideously violent deformations (thus completing the Bacon). At this point we can choose to leave then come back with our usual appearance, or hang out in our new anamorphic but still entirely serviceable body.” Domenico Quaranta


Second Soup

"... my avatar was attacked and dry humped by a Warholian Campbell’s soup can repeatedly spewing the text “Pop Art hates you." Brooklyn Rail


[edit] LITTLETOE BARTLETT

Henry

LT worked under the name Hollow Prim for works she left at BIW...

Most of them very goofy, with a just touch of sadness, for good measure.


[edit] TEZCATLIPOCA BISIANI

Table of Objects

A very early table full of really exquisite little objects


[edit] RACHEL BREAKER

MAGICENCHANTED DREAM FACTORYNOBASE

"Its creator, Rachel Breaker, isn’t modest; her name is in big letters on the factory, and they light up in succession like an old marquee sign. The arrows pointing to the factory blink in various colors; there are more arrows that are not visible in the photo. The factory belches smoke, and the big gears turn." Shirley Marquez


“She likes to make feral noises in the back of her throat when someone tries to abscond with her poptarts. She’s crazy about her breakfast. In many instances, she is said to be a “bright” or “colorful” person, but this is entirely pretense; a clever ruse. On the inside, Rachel is grayscale and comprised of domesticated elephants who’s highest desire is to make faces at children passing in the window. Rachel’s outlook on life is that anything is possible; or more specifically, everything is possible. Her imagination becomes reality, because she wills it to do so. To her, everything is the exact opposite of what we’ve come to know today. She does not concern herself with the superficial, but rather looks on the inside; her favorite organ is the jugular.” Rachel Breaker (from notecard)



[edit] PENUMBRA CARTER

In Defense of Future Escape Pods

This was a pretty cool installation quite beautiful.


Meatball Pasta

Penumbra offered comfort food in the midst of rainbow cacophony.


Submission

A mysterious, haunting, dark, organic-looking submarine/whale, with sound and with a ride pose on its back.


[edit] TANITH CATTENEO

Untitled Protest

A ruthless satire left at the entrance of the sim that provoked responses by several other artists.


"Dialogs are important to me. Why else would I be here?" Tanith Catteneo

  • Discussed in podcast #50 (to be confirmed)


[edit] ARAHAN CLAVEAU

fuck me / shoot me

"From a distance the eight panels seem to form part of an abstract work, it is only when the camera is zoomed in very close that you can see it is made up of thousands of tiny photographs of a shirtless soldier pointing a gun. When zoomed out and the camera or avatar moves, an optical effect occurs (moiré), the effect is intentional. The panels are also individually scripted so they change colour when walked (or flown) into." (text quoted from the notecard)


"Most of Arahan’s work is confrontational and political. This one is different in that the message is hidden behind an apparent exercise in form, and so it can be seen on two levels, the abstract and the political. I see that hiding of the message as a message in itself, a comment on how important messages are often buried under the surface of our society." Shirley Marquez


"I think it’s interesting that we often fetishize things that are a source of anguish, I certainly seem to have done so with this piece." Arahan Claveau


Injustice

A gallows and pink balloons; a reaction to acts of prejudice, intolerance and injustice perpetrated by governments, religious groups and individuals towards homosexuals.


"It’s refreshing for me to see a work like this, one that taps into that anger that must still be out there, just below the surface. And in a world like SL where people go so far out of their way to avoid reality at all costs, it’s wonderful to see a work that acknowledges not only the real world, but the parts of the real world we often want to forget about. SL offers us this promise of a utopia where race, gender, sexual orientation, and all those other pesky things don’t matter, but it’s nothing but a very temporary balm." Amy Freelunch [1]


"Since 9/11, I have become increasingly chicken-livered about topics that make me feel pain and sadness. To that end, Second Life is the cadillac of anesthesias: I am able to interact with hundreds of avatars on a daily basis, while rarely having to consider the price of petrol, the latest treachery in political campaigns, or the earthquake in China. That is, unless Arahan's art is about, he is seriously committed to his vision of art as a tool of revolutionary change. As wordly as I like to think that I am, I forget what it's like out there, beyond my liberal home in Southern California. Take a look at the penalties for homosexuality around the world. Mission accomplished, Arahan." Bettina Tizzy [2]


"From my perspective I don’t think I could ever stop being angry or indifferent to injustice and suffering and I feel a duty to play a part, however small, in bringing attention to certain issues. It is possible to do this in so many ways, including artistic statements that force people to confront subjects they might be oblivious to. If you’re an artist and you never do that, you’re just irresponsible." Arahan Claveau [3]


"Good luck with your artistic projects and campaigning. Solidarity!" Peter Tatchell (via email)


The love that dare not speak its name

A simple enclosed field of avatar-sized pink crosses on a blood red ground with pink triangular shards.


Sick Cat

A condensed version of a 2005-6 installation exploring the concept of mind uploading.


"In Second Life Steve (Arahan) has built an installation piece called Sick Cat which explores both his fears of hospitals and his desire to live on after death. Steve believes that one day, we will be able to live completely within a simulated reality. Fascinated and scared by death, he sees technology as a replacement for religion and dreams of being able to upload his consciousness into a computer to live on, Matrix-like, after death." From Channel 4 website


"‘Uploading’ means that once our minds have been transferred digitally we effectively become immortal. Issues which had been a problem when in the physical body no longer pose a threat; we would become immune to disease, ageing and injury, normal physical laws would not apply. The possibilities are seemingly limitless and bewildering." Arahan Claveau


[edit] SOCKS CLAWTOOTH

Egobox

"This is an "Egobox". outside you click the sign and get a few things, then you come inside and accept the love and appreciation from the virtual crowd who won't stop applauding. Well, at least as long as you use the gesture I put in the sign. Then you just wander out of it when you feel better. Call it art, I called it what it is." Socks Clawtooth


[edit] MARLENE COLLAS

Tiny Ball with Pictures

"Instead of thinking of this piece as being exclusionary, why not think of it being inclusionary? Meaning, instead of your heart immediately going out to all the folks who will walk right past it and not even know it’s there, what about the small community that is built among the various strangers who do, in fact, notice it or are tipped off? Suddenly, there are these people who probably don’t have much else in common except that they are in on the secret… but at least now they have that." - Amy Freelunch on the BIW blog



[edit] BANRION CONSTANTINE

CLIMBER

"Banrion challenged herself to participate in the BiW rl/sl Draw-a-thon October 2008 session by creating this rope climber. In the Jack the Pelican Gallery rl people were drawing from the model while in Second Life a few of us participated by creating art from the same models streamed in on a video screen. The piece was no less for the limited time and unusual building setting ( a lot of avatars dancing and doing sl crazy stuff not to mention naked people on the screen)"


[edit] BUTTERFLYSMASHER DANA

Various works

Butterflysmasher (aka Alex Barrella) has had several of his works displayed at Brooklyn is Watching by other artists, albeit entirely without his knowledge as he rarely logs into SL these days. His work has also been incorporated into other work seen at BiW by Ichibot Nishi and Arahan Claveau and interacted with in clever and amusing ways by the likes of DanCoyote Antonelli. (In)Famous for his grotesque, disturbing and hilarious genital and scatological dioramas, Butterfly's work was always lovingly crafted with an obsessive attention to detail. He was a unique Second Life artist, subversive, uncompromising and hugely talented and his work deserves to be seen by a wider audience.


"Are you saying there are too many dicks here?" Boris Kizelshteyn


[edit] PATRICIAANNE DAVIAU

Lilliton

PatriciaAnne created a tiny-scale town that was incredibly charming and accomplished what the best of DC Spensley's work also does which is to really make you experience what SL is in a visceral way.


[edit] JUANITA DEHARO

Squiggles

I am interested in the way the book format might be translated and transformed as an art form in virtual worlds. This piece is an exploration of how one might create and read 'pages'in a new kind of 'book'. It 'reminds us' of a book, evokes some memory of reading, paper, drawing on a page. Contrary to the discussion in the podcast the work is created entirely with pixels. It poses some of these sorts of questions: Does the drawer/printmaker aesthetic of the artist seep into the digital format? Is there a place for evoking the memory of the book, reading, sequence, page turning, story telling in virtual artwork? Does a virtual book belong in a library or a gallery? Is there a place for restraint and quiet and listening to the voice of the artist in a virtual world where big and bold, colourful, whirling, flashing, glowing and ever changing is the norm?


[edit] MONET DESTINY

Object

Monet Destiny delivered a minimalistic metaphor for the simplistic illusion of 3D space delivered by the medium (see right side of the picture). A simple cube with a plywood texture in the standard size 0.5x0.5x0.5, this deceivingly simple-looking readymade confines to Andre Breton's excellent definition of being a "manufactured object(s) promoted to the dignity of objects of art through the choice of the artist". The artist, Monet Destiny, thus draws a line from impressionist painting (his name!) via the beginning of modern art to unveiling the illusionist nature of so-called virtual worlds, simply by placing a 'wooden' cube on the fake lawn of the Brooklyn-Is-Watching sim and, at the same time, makes clear that Beuys' famous statement "EVERY HUMAN BEING IS AN ARTIST" holds more than ever.

- Nusch Ray


[edit] KLINK EPSILON

Vermilion: Betrayal, Anger and Sorrow

"This is an emotional look at relationships I have had in the past that ended really badly." Klink Epsilon


[edit] QARL FIZZ

Number 4

Some figures that looked like wooden life-drawing dolls but when you got close to them they would collapse in a heap


[edit] ALIZARIN GOLDFLAKE

Come Go With Me

"Goldflake’s work has that same sense of fantasy, of stylized trees and natural forms, of symmetry, of reflections, and solitary contemplativeness that we know from the work of illustrators like Kay Nielsen and Maxfield Parrish, and the quietly profound, empty landscapes of American Luminist artists like Martin Johnson Heade." -SmartHistory.org

"Come Go With Me" is a dreamy, watery, meditative space gently animated with scripts and accompanied by a haunting sound. A meditation sit allows the avatar to watch the patterns as they slowly revolve. The piece was created with textures drawn with Corel Painter and with SL building and scripting tools and the sound was made using Audacity. _Alizarin Goldflake

  • Discussed in podcast #?


The Maze

An SLART Magazine pick of the week.

"The Maze" is meant to be a mysterious and slightly scarey build. The walls flow like a river, the floor moves underfoot, petunias blow around on the SL wind, and occasionally the elusive great white spirit emerges from the center. A haunting melody reverberates throughout. Viewers should be sure to notice how the textures glow from blue to green as they travel down the corridors to the center of The Maze, where a meditation cushion hovers at the spirit's source. This sculpture consist of simple prims textured with multiple textures, opaque and transparent. Both are animated with scripts. The point of the work is to enjoy the kaleidoscopic interactions between textures and the mood generated by the piece. The textures made from my real life digital drawings. The drawings are done like drawings in traditional media except that I use digital tools, including a software program called Corel Painter and a pressure-sensitive digitizing tablet and stylus. -Alizarin Goldflake

  • Discussed in podcast #?


Night Light

SLART MAGAZINE, Pick of the week, September 1, 2008

The theme of Night Light is the visual magic of moonlight at the ocean's edge. A receding tide has left the seaweed glistening. Stars wink overhead. The avatar can float on a gently-moving water texture while using the camera to look at the fallen star above or the swaying seaweed below. A mythic white fish undulates deep within the ebb and flow. It is an SL extension of an RL digital drawing, born of the my lifetime love affair with the coast of Maine USA, where I find a lot of material while kayaking. The build incorporates textures, particles, sculpties, and a sound (all made by me) and scripts and an animation (made by others and modified by me). - Alizarin Goldflake

  • Discussed in podcast #37


Phosphoressence

  • Discussed in podcast #?


Summer's Halloween

  • Discussed in podcast #28


[edit] GLYPH GRAVES

Parsimonious Offering

Parsimonious definition

Second Life Viewer version 1.22 or higher required.

"The name describes the sculpture on two levels, a trivial one and a deeper one. At the trivial level it is an exercise in how complex a piece of art you can make that is composed of a single prim. In terms of prims about as parsimonious as you can get :).

On a deeper level it explores the concept of giving, of generosity ( or conversely, stingyness). The sculpture argues that it does not matter how copious or generous the gift is, if it isn’t in a form that the recipient can receive then it becomes its antithesis.

The inverted part of the sculpt forms an envelope that both enfolds and connects the male and female figures into their own little world."


Wind Installation

November 2008

Wind strength meter (ground level)

"Prims map wind strength to prim height. the whole thing maps 100 square meters of whatever sim it is in to 10 square meters starting at the location. The wind direction and strength is also visualized by mapping the wind vector to the RGB colour vector. ie each 1 meter square shows the SL wind at the center of a 10 meter square at the relevant sim position."

Total Wind Sculpture

Wind creatures with movement colour and sound shaped by the SL Wind Also now located at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Arachnod/200/77/2237

"..an interactive installation that responds to the wind in Second Life by emitting a symphony of musical notes, light, and color, all according to the vectors and strength of the random air currents flowing through it. I just briefly visited, and it's heart-achingly awesome. In fact, maybe it's a better idea to visit it first-hand, and then watch Dizzy's excellent interview with Glyph, to fully appreciate the math and artistry that makes it possible." Hamlet Au, New World Notes Tue Dec 23 2008

  • Also featured in Dizzy Banjo's video here


[edit] SUZANNE GRAVES

Spiral Threads #01

I liked this one.


[edit] LONETORUS HABILIS

Garden of Colour

"Its a little walled garden with a sign in the front that leads you into a space where various objects are assembled. Several of them a quite interesting. They start to grow when you approach and then start to rain down color on the garden and I can’t explain why but i’m really charmed by this- it makes this garden and the things in it belong to a special place where it rains whenever you’re there, and it rains color which engages my imagination in a way that i find quite delightful… I just love it and i want to spend more time looking at all the things in here to try to understand why they wound up in this garden (metaphorically speaking). I’m also a sucker for the C64, it was my first computer when i was a kid, and I even took it to college with me because i couldn’t afford a better one at that point." Jay Van Buren


[edit] BETLOG HAX

Camera Synch

This was a group of boxes- if one avatar sat on the one in the center they would control the point of view of any other avatars sitting on the other boxes


[edit] FORD HEBERLE

Sycophant/Parvenu

This work would put your avatar's profile in a frame and speak words from your avatar's profile


[edit] STRAWBERRY HOLIDAY

Trees (what is real title SH?)

These trees were some of the best I'd ever seen.


[edit] KICCA IGALY

Protection


[edit] SCOTSGRAYMOUSER JANUS

Galaxy Sculpture with Chains mouse

This was a strange work, but a good one.


Fortress of Solitude for lynn 2


[edit] KAT2 KIT

20-sided Die Memorial

(description needed)


Art gallery

First works placed at Brooklyn is Watching


Arthur C Clarke Memorial


Pearl Printing Press

(description and links needed)


Vandercook Printing Press

(description and links needed)


[edit] REZAGO KOKORIN

Watching Brooklyn is Watching

Site specific installation, I have no idea whether this was the title, but it's discussed in podcast 22.

I am thoroughly glad to see Rezago remembered here. But he seems to have vanished from SL; if he were to win he might pop out of the woodwork, but I doubt it.

Rezago did have to leave SL for a while, but rumor has it that he's coming back soon. I hope so - he has had a big influence on me and a lot of other artists trying to find their way to artmaking here in this world - O.O

I second that- Rezago generously gave his time and knowledge to so many of us. His weekly classes were one of the highlights for me and many and a way of inspiring us to use the tools and simple scripts to create artworks.- Juanita D


[edit] PAVIG LOK

BFA after Durer

The Ern Malley artist statement:

“He was a poet of tremendous power, working through a disciplined and restrained kind of statement into the deepest wells of human experience.”

This is how Max Harris responded to the discovery of the Ern Malley poems in 1940s Australia. Harris, an avant garde poet and critic, had started a modernist magazine called Angry Penguins. He published and lauded the poetry in his magazine, thus sealing his fate.

Unfortunately for Harris, Ern Malley didn't exist. He was a hoax dreamed up by some fellows who believed the modernists had lost the ability to differentiate good art from bad. The poems were a mashup of purple prose, poor imagery, cutup and cliche. The ensuing kerfuffle made international headlines and the courts. More can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ern_Malley

If you're going to produce shit as art you best have a good reason to do so. Fun is a good enough reason methinks :P So when I set out to play a light-hearted game with the Brooklyn is Watching crew, Ern was the obvious jumping off point. An obvious art hoax for anyone who cared to google the name. Thus I set out to make some crap art..... little did I realize....

Brooklyn is Watching was going through a "big fuckin ant" period - where a sculpted ant freebie had turned up in the sim. Folk were tinkering with it to recontextualize the work. To be honest a lot of it left me cold... many of the works were all punchline and not much else. (More elaborate works arrived later). So I figured I'd start with that.... if you call a recontextualized ant art then that's already established.

The first poem of Ern Malley's Darkening eliptic sequence was called was called Durer: Innsbruck, 1495. It was both about a painting, and the art process. Particularly about being unoriginal. Why not, I thought, combine a big fuckin ant and a classical painting - by stealing the form of the latter and applying the shapes of the former perhaps it would take on an arty look.

Unfortunately for my original intention, it did, and started to grow. Like Max Harris I was being fooled into seeing something that wasn't there... or was it? So I started doing some soul searching about why I was attracted to Ern Malley in the first place.

James McAuley and Harold Stewart, Ern Malleys creators, had become dissatisfied with the later modernism of Harris's generation. They liked the old stuff and felt the slide into proto post-modernism was a dissolution of ideal and objective values.

I tended to agree with them, having taught post modernism myself. It seemed, for all it's useful critical tools and insights, to have a subjective impotence at it's heart. A practical manifestation of this postmodern problem is political correctness - great in principle but often wishy washy in practice. Early modernism showed a similar idealistic zeal to the driving force of the enlightenment era. A belief in the objective good rather than the impotent endless subjectivity and doublespeak of post-modern thought (or the tautology laden post-structural view).

So how does post-modernism see Malley?

McKenzie Wark: The postmodern is a particular kind of aesthetic that happens, again and again, when one feels the cool texture of the dark underside of the page, rather than being caught like a bunny in the headlights of whatever is momentarily manifest on the surface of the text. It’s where Ern Malley ceases to be an either/ or figure, and becomes an and-also one. Not either a hoax or a genius, but necessarily both, allied and connected to both modern affirmation and its negation.

Post modernism likes it both ways :P Insightful but not particularly helpful. I was looking for a more solid reason for liking the work. Something more passionate. Did I, like Malley's creators, outsmart myself? Art critic Robert Hughes had a more satisfying explanation:

"The basic case made by Ern's defenders was that his creation proved the validity of surrealist procedures: that in letting down their guard, opening themselves to free association and chance, McAuley and Stewart had reached inspiration by the side-door of parody; and though this can't be argued on behalf of all the poems, some of which are partly or wholly gibberish, it contains a ponderable truth... The energy of invention that McAuley and Stewart brought to their concoction of Ern Malley created an icon of literary value, and that is why he continues to haunt our culture."

Having mis-spent my youth following the punk tradition, I'd often fallen back to cutup techniques and the cultivation of randomness in the creative process. This is not a theoretically post-modern practice but a practical one. One can't imagine they have control over every aspect and consideration of a work, so in releasing that control, something unimaginable can then manifest. One can foster a work one could never produce through intent; for no intent can create the universe, yet the universe is available to us for our observation. It is a process of opening up a work to let externalities in. Chance can be a tool for inspiration rather than dissolution.

This allowed me to clarify what I was trying to achieve and finish the work. So this work can be seen from several perspectives:

From the front it presents the original Durer painting with ant parts inlaid to create an insectoid Innsbruck. This cutup reflects the process of producing the Malley poems, which themselves quoted from many sources, one of which was a book on insect populations in marshland. Both Malley and "big fuckin ant art" are deliberately lowbrow forms, but in borrowing a classical art piece as a foundation they appear more refined.

From the back "the mind repeats - in it's ignorance the vision of others". The Malley poem is juxtaposed with the forms borrowed from the painting of the poems subject. The poem itself is about the process of this borrowing.

The third aspect is the repeating of the forms of Innsbruck town on the ground. It is a shadow inverted, light rather than dark. The universe is contained in it (via a starmap texture - my own tribute to overblown poetic devices). It is also a reflection of the reflection of the town on the water in the original painting on the other side. It suggests light leaking out of the canvass.

This reflection represents the leakage of meaning out of it's original context. Durers painting, re contextualized though Ern's poem, then carried through and reflected onto the universe of literary history, art history and popular culture. The funhouse mirror of reflected meaning carries on into one's own personal interpretation.

So in setting out to trick the Brooklyn is Watching critics, I ended up tricking myself instead. The joke has evolved into a satisfying piece (if only for me :P). If I've been post-modern in the way I've gone about it, well so be it.

Pavig Lok


Intellectual Property Garden

I liked this piece for two reasons. First because of the craftsmanship of the piece - it's made of an intricately shaped Sculptey (in Blender??) and also the delicate "©" particles are impressive. Secondly is the concept-it's new media work without directly commenting on new media itself. Rather it focuses on Commodification (that old chestnut!) - with "©" particles pointing to a very Adbusters sentimentality. This kind of subject matter is usually kind of grating to me but in this case it's surprisingly affecting, Probably because I wouldn't expect to see this subject matter being explored in Second Life. The late 90's subject matter, combined with the elbow-grease implicit in making the piece, makes the piece seem like a classic sculpture, keeping it old-rave on the otherwise mostly nu-rave sim. Of course, it also calls into question the notion of copytheft and Open Source, so it's also rooted in the right now.

-Walter Scott


[edit] CENSOREDMY LUNT (aka CickMy Lunt)

Luntsberg Candy Castle

Playful yet sort of demented general purpose Daniel Buren for kids meets Will Cotton/Paul McCarthy setting.

  • Discussed in podcast #?


[edit] MAN MACHINIGA

The Zoetrope

"Two, there is something about longing and desire here, but I can’t put my finger on it. Something about that hand opening and closing, like the catch that the football player screwed up during some important game which will now haunt him for life. Or something like that." - Amy Freelunch on mixed review BiW blog post


[edit] SOWA MAI

Ghost Story

Sowa Mai's Ghost Story is a multimedia narrative featuring full immersion observation. Using a basic story unique to a virtual world Sowa has created a walkthrough corridor with chambers relating to the text. The story, the rooms, and the technology are all unique to Second Life and a virtual existence.

The emotional impact is indicative of metaverse experience. Unsuspecting puppetmasters find themselves quickly caught up in the story and are soon inhabiting the avatar in a way that could not have been expected or forewarned.


[edit] SHIRLEY MARQUEZ

Shutup and Let Me Go!

Tribute to the song by The Ting Tings, based on Porta Potty (8) Burning Life 08 by Poid Mahovlich.

  • Discussed in podcast #?


[edit] ROBIN MOORE

All At Once


The Girl On the Swing

"Robin Moore’s work creates a third dimension by using multiple planes.We can freely move our camera to see into the depths of the picture. (Moving your camera is a must for this work; looking at it strictly from one position just won’t give you the effect it is meant to produce.) I liked the “forward into the past” aspect of exploring this old way of creating depth, and felt that the moving swing added to the evocation of animation past." Shirley Marquez


A Tribute To My Music Teacher

"Robin Moore offers us yet another exploration of created depth. The images are all pieces of musical scores: staves, notes, clefs. The new element this time is the use of curved white surfaces behind the first plane of images; the curved pieces are pierced by staff lines of an inner plane." Shirley Marquez


[edit] COMET MORIGI

Wind Particles

The SL wind makes variable shape, with the particle generators in a row. Feb.2009


Foggy Forest

This was in podcast 52 so it just gets under the wire - an amazing work high in the sky over BIW - technically very well done and its placement called attention to its fancifulness and thereby to the same qualities in the world itself


[edit] NESSU MYOO

La Dolce Attesa


[edit] ICHIBOT NISHI

blue.plane

There has been some stunning work left under the water at Brooklyn is Watching but there was something about blue.plane that was just extraordinary. It was so engaging because it felt totally new and alien. It was a sublime use of the space and its presence invoked a calm, otherworldly mood in the environment. The version nominated here looked exactly like it does in this image by taken by Ichibot, and it was later added to by Selavy Oh.


episodic.atomized

"Sophisticated, yet horrifying." Jay Van Buren


Hello World

I cannot find any information on this but people will remember it. It was a grid of white, textured cubes and oblongs laid out like a small city, it used quotes from the internet (ie; spammed external internet data such as in-world related blog feeds, discussions etc.) and tracked visitors' avatars (ie; stored internal data,.. most likely for correlational purposes or simply more spamming). The sonic side consisted of the programs default, albeit out of context, UI sounds. It was talked about very enthusiastically on an early podcast and it appeared before somafree (see below). Please help with any information, images and a link to the podcast because it deserves a nomination. -Arahan-


λ.mnemonic (lambda.mnemonic)

Shown at Arthole, but linked to from Brooklyn Is Watching.

"Its strengths are many. Ichibot creates an eerie, unsettling space that allows you to explore it while never quite being sure how to interpret it ..." Amy Freelunch


Quake Mod

Ichibots' thorough Quake makeover of the entire BiW plot provoked divided opinions. Some thought it was a fun and clever contribution whilst others felt it was over the top and invasive.

"To anyone who agrees with biw being a social space it is great fun to dialogue and interact like that and so forth, at least it should be. Is that crossing some line? Who knows, but to use a brooklyn branded word it is most certainly cool. So fuck how you’re livin’, I’m the unforgivin’ psycho drivin’ murdera. It’s authentic, don’t panic, I can’t stand it, goddamn it. Schizophrenic, so fuck Charlie Manson, I’ll snatch him out of his truck hit’em with a brick and I’m dancin’." Ichibot Nishi


Somafree

"This piece is quite brilliant - the way it got under my skin, annoyed me to the point where I actually cared (ok, that sounds like a backhanded compliment, but really: how much SL art really elicits care? it’s pretty remarkable to be able to do that). I feel like it’s using the technology of SL in a really evil and disruptive - and yet, extremely subtle - way… and I approve." Amy Freelunch


[edit] ICHIBOT NISHI & ARAHAN CLAVEAU

Beyond Human

“Take a wondrous, challenging journey into an enchanted world beyond human.”


Maximist and excessive, and pure high camp, this collaborative snow globe was meant to be shaken and not stirred! I missed my chance to Advance Beyond Human! Let’s bring it back! Aside from the fact that it is without a doubt the coolest snow globe, EVAH (by the mere fact that you can walk through it), it also exists as an artistic exercise in baseness and guilty pleasures, while also questioning and depicting the guilt mechanisms for having such pleasures in society. The piece also speaks to the trend of unabashedly appropriating and creating whatever, whenever, via the freedoms of technology in contemporary remix culture. I am a huge fan of the filmmaker and artist John Waters, and the piece operates like his best films. The work is pukey, zany, hilarious, naughty, and celebrates the strangeness of suburbia while also acknowledging its sad and horrible chains. Furthermore, the artists even give you a living room area to sit and contemplate the politics of beauty and the politics of “who” has the power to name beauty; to question the politics of personal taste and aesthetics, to question ourselves, and the crazy world we live in. Isn’t that what art should do?

Things to check-out in the globe: Rainbows, crosses with food offering shrine, quintessential poster art, living room couch area, psychotic pink bunnies and flowers, money signs, a Slither-esque-blobby-monster grotesque form pile, heart shaped snowflakes, rose petal rain, strange flies with drippy mouths.

- MonCherrie Afterthought


"Quotes are scattered throughout the piece, which seem to refer to some sort of religious text. The use of these passages points to the piece having a beating heart – there is an actual message the artists are getting at, even if it’s obscure. The language of religious dogma which tends to be “exaggerated… fantastic… passionate… naïve” fits perfectly into an overall vocabulary of camp – and the artist’s appropriation of it is their bid for seriousness. You can’t help but be struck by the how genuine the quotes sound, even if you know deep down that they refer to something the artists find insidious." Amy Freelunch



[edit] ICHIBOT NISHI & SELAVY OH

playground.space

Ichibot Nishi and Selavy Oh's wonderfully subversive contribution to the Second Life family debate.


[edit] SOROR NISHI

Desert Eucalypt

(description needed)


Trees (name unknown)


The Essence of Winter


[edit] TUNA ODDFELLOW

Gateway -- a mixed reality performance at BiW/SL and BiW/Brooklyn

(live performance with original textures, megaprims, rezzing devices, particles, toys, and magic)

From the BiW/Jack the Pelican show description: The Odd Ball – their performance art dance party – is a staple of the art and neophile crowd in Second Life. Dancing amid a psychedelic cloud of images, a typical crowd of 100 a night comes to see the show twice a week or more. The parties are known as a salon, where politics, philosophy, and perception are not unusual topics. However, they are best known as the most powerful virtual high in Second Life. Typical attendees report that they are “stoned” or “tripping,” “ecstatic” and “transported.” It’s common fare for a new person to be brought to the show unaware of the reputation, so that the effect is not primed. The following is nearly cultish.

To see the show, come to an Odd Ball at 11am SLT on Sundays or 7pm SLT on Mondays. As an immersive live experience, video and stills just do not capture the effect.


[edit] BRYN OH

Drawing Out the Shiver

"Combining old with new and future technologies. Pieces of a narrative. Figures — part Victorian doll, part mechanical machine, part robot — on the run in the darkness, in danger, feeling attachment for each other. A sense of loss, of the passing of time, of nostalgia, of the vulnerability of childhood,[link title] of evil…" Beth Harris

  • Discussed in podcast #?


Sea & Sky

Oh God what do you say about Bryn Oh's work, Steampunk art? well it's much more than that. (Maybe Bryn can add a description?)


Rabicorn Environment


[edit] OXOC AH

Atari Station Pit Fall


[edit] SELAVY OH

Attractive Art

Selavy Oh put a cube under the water at BIW that sucked avatars over to it and wouldn't let them go. This piece is one of the ones that I talk about when i want something fast to get people to realize the potential of art in SL.


Blue Curtain

This blue curtain was absolutely amazing and beautiful- changed color with the wind on the sim.


Chain

A Chain of white frames that went up into the sky ultimately hanging from nothing- if you ran into this it would swing back and forth- every now and then it would break and fall apart (because of a bug in the SL software) and then it would reassemble it self. This is simple, brilliant, elegant - it works metaphorically and its fun to play with.


Decomposition

Installation using invisprims, first shown at Brooklyn Is Watching, invited for the BiW plot at SL5B by Jay Newt.


Face Melting Performance

Selavy Oh made her face melt.


Forbidden Space

A white-cube space, a chair inside, but when the visitor attempted to enter, the space turned out to be inaccessible, pushing the avatar away from it. Shown at Brooklyn Is Watching, and later invited by Amy Freelunch for the BiW plot at SL5B.


Hyperspacial Object

"We Hyperspacialists feel ourselves to be the artists of today, since the conquests of technology are by now at the service of the art we profess." (1)


Incomplete Cube

Sometimes there is work at Brooklyn Is Watching, which is continuously overlooked. And sometimes there is work which appears to be a litmus test of curiosity. Selavy placed nine small white cubes in front of the stage, and you could sit on each one of them without anything happening. Only if five avatars would sit at the same time, the nine white cubes would reveal their mystery: they suddenly would start to move, animate the avatars, transforming them avatars into a 'living' sculptures, forming the edges of a larger cube with their bodies. Eight cubes for the eight corners, one for the center, but eight avatars being never enough to make the cube complete, to provide all its twelve edges. A social sculpture? Or a complete failure, conceptually embedded in the work? Even though there was a notecard handed out to every avatar sitting on one of the cubes, even though the nine cubes were at BiW for three weeks, the "Incomplete Cube" was only activated once when Selavy spontaneously called a group of friends to help.

-- Nusch Ray


Lose Your Head

One part of a series of works using invisprims.

"I just popped into BIW for a second and wam! my head was gone" Jay Newt


Portraits

"I would refer to this as low frequency performance in many respects since it does seen like an ongoing long period performance orchestrated by the artist using potentialities from the social and communication tool set in SL. ... Not simply an illustration, but a clear and thoughtful conceptual intervention on the part of the artist beyond raconteur." DC Spensley (in a comment)


Sky Grass

This one is like blue curtain but maybe even better.


Slugs

"I thought about the slugs in my garden that I like to kill … I would go out with little clippers and just hack them to bits ’cause I hated them…" Beth Harris


Spiral

"What could be more abstract than 1001 white cubes, floating in mid-air?" Amy Freelunch


[edit] SELAVY OH & DEKKA RAYMAKER

Selavy Boxed

Dekka built a woodwork box to contain Selavy's cubes


[edit] 010000100111001001100001011011 OMLET

Tiny Stonehenge

(had avatar name wrong before- corrected it - jay)


[edit] OBERON ONMURA

Beacon

This twisted tower of flashing white blocks was exactly the height of the BIW overlay that used to cover the sim at about 200 meters. A little while after constructing itself, it begins to self-destruct from the bottom, scattering its parts to the winds. The cycle repeats every two minutes.


Cube of Cubes


Gravitas

OK. This isn't the best title I ever thought up, but I like the piece anyway! It's basically an array of self-aiming shooters shooting balls toward a center point. At the center, the balls collide and fight each other making sparks and little explosions. I think of it as sort of a SL version of a cold fusion reactor, if that makes sense. - O.O


Path Monitor

The first in a series of artworks that create a record of avatars passing through or nearby. A 14x14 grid of rotating markers change height and colour when an avatar walks through them, marking his/her/its path. The avatar's name is displayed over each one in the same colour as the marker. The grid remembers each avatar and marks its passage with the same colour on every subsequent contact.


[edit] CHEEN PITNEY

Comical Also

"The colors of the texture certainly do evoke a palette favoured by certain cubists and the repetition and echoing of the lines evoke that feeling they were attempting to put on canvas. One can only imagine what some of those minds would have done with this raw material." Cheen Pitney (1)


First Nation Series

"this thing somewhat resembles those little exotic souvernirs one finds in street markets and such." Ichibot Nishi

Blog post


Hommage to Monet

"Cheen, are those tear drops coming from the eye? are they phalli representing the The Gaze of the art-fans of brooklyn?" Jay Newt


XI'an Guard


War

Four organically rendered kneeling soldiers (four corners of the earth?) face off at a squarely gridded crossroads, literally. They're locked into each others' sights as their long weapons become one, making a bent-arm-cross, a fylfot. Fiery particles erupt beneath their soft black sheen like mushroom clouds or sunflowers or souls, along with the word Peacefools- the artist's signature (it is the name of Cheen Pitney's blog).

Couldn't find a snap from Brooklyn is Watching so this one is from uqbar's Arena.


[edit] CINCO PIZZICATO

Macy's Day Mishap

Verily, I nominate myself! I think Jay even took a picture of it.


[edit] DEKKA RAYMAKER

8 Platforms

Dekka Raymaker’s highly-complex, multi-media installation encircled the BIW tower with eight platforms for investigation, aptly titled: Propaganda Platform, Identity Platform, Resource Platform, Choice Platform, Immersed Platform, Idyll Platform, Creation Platform, and Reflect Platform. If there weren’t enough buzzwords on the platform list to pique curiosity, BIW blogger Shirley Marquez gave an excellent 4-part description, and documentation of the accomplished work (links above). The work also serves to historicize the brief history of SL and its hot/controversial topics, but from a personal perspective of artist as avatar. It is that level of reflexivity that I truly appreciate, coinciding with the intricate detail.

-MonCherrie Afterthought


Adult Content–Age Verification

A scathing comment on Linden Labs' recently-added 'adult content' rules. It was a huge gate with electrified fence that scanned you and made sure you were allowed to visit all the 'adult' content of BiW.

I've enjoyed the way Dekka's work exists within the cultural reality of SL. It's truly SL art in that sense.

The gate made it to Nebulosus Severine's blog, and from there even to JamesWagner Au's New World Notes. Follow links for pictures and more commentary, including Nebulosus' flickr collection.

Security Gate + 8 Platforms = Dekka is a rockstar.


Alpha Killed My One Prim Door

A 'Doors of Perception' sky platform with a multi-prim door that opened out onto nowhere, a one-prim door graveyard and door angels.

Discussed in podcast #46


Burning Life

"Dekka Raymaker offers us another political statement, this time on the banning and burning of books by Wilhelm Reich. There is also a chair to sit in, but when you sit there you are taken up to the second floor of the cube, where you see books burning; the hovertext above each book shows that the book was incinerated, and some have the number of copies that were burned. This is a powerful and emotional work. Go see it." Shirley Marquez


The Church of Whoami

Shown at Arthole, but linked from BiW. An extension and a tighter installation based on the theme set by 8 Platforms, about both the identity of the avatar/real life person and the interaction of Second Life/real life.


Look What I Made (Cash from Chaos)

This work already shows the richness of detail and the substantial spectrum of topics found in later pieces by Dekka, here presented as objets trouvés in the condensed form of a boîte-en-valise ... or is it the shelf of a strange corner store?


Virgo Violated / No one is safe

"Dekka’s piece shows a man hanging from a gallows, with a knocked-over portable staircase next to it. The man is Male Noob AFK by Art Laxness, a faithful reproduction in prims and textures of White T-shirt Guy, the most common male newbie avatar (or at least until a couple of months ago when LL introduced a bunch of new starter avatars). Around his neck is a sign saying Ageplayers, Ad-Framers, Land Barons, Vampires, Goreans, Furries, Forum Posters, Goths, Artists, all written in a stencil typeface; the first two are crossed out. (Those are two groups of people that LL has already acted against. Gamblers and Bankers might have also been included and crossed out, but are not listed.) Above his head is the name Censor Linden in orange hovertext, the same shade used for the nametags displayed by the viewer. (It does not have the partially transparent black oval around it that name tags do; there isn’t any way to do that. The build is set for sale for L$100000, but the comment field says “NOT FOR SALE - Please don’t buy”." Shirley Marquez


[edit] CUBIST SCARBOROUGH

Hologram of Clive Egginton

Very cool portrait of a man in slices inside a black sphere.


[edit] SETA SCRIBE

Element 1: Breakdance

“I’ve incorporated the elements that make up Hip Hop into a three dimesional(sic) structure.The “Blockheads” are characters from old paintings created in a time before I knew of Second Life. Their simple shapes lend themselves perfectly to prim painting” Seta Scribe


[edit] NEBULOSUS SEVERINE

Bunnyken in La-La-Land

Mab sez: I didn't see Bunnyken in La-La Land for myself till week 53, but it's talked about in podcast 52 and BiW has it tagged as biw52, snap made 28 March - BiW image


I'm Sorry Dad

"This is a remarkably strong piece full of the raw emotion I’ve come to associate with the artist’s work, but also infused with a subtly and delicacy that I haven’t seen before. It could have easily have become clichéd and overwrought, but the artist exercises incredible control and reserve. Instead of coming on strong and beating us over the head with every trick in the book, she lets the various elements in the installation breathe, work with each other, and do what they’re there to do." Amy Freelunch (1)


Just Fucking Die

"This one did not get talked about on the podcast and this is one of the reasons that we really miss Amy who was a champion of emotionally raw, biographically revealing work. I tried to steer the conversation toward it but this particular group of panelists were reluctant to “go there”. I had a conversation with the artist, Nebulosus Severine who said “basically it’s supposed to be a literal representation of my wanting to kill off emotional attachment/involvement… “." Jay VanBuren


Look What You Made Me Do

This deeply personal and brave work from Nebulosus deals with issues of isolation and self-mutilation, and it provoked a passionate response from Amy Freelunch in podcast 8. The artist used an original drawing from her sketchbook and recreated it in Second Life using her avatar, the juxtaposition of both very graphic images inside a purpose-built environment is potent and harrowing.


[edit] AZDEL SLADE

Becoming Dragon

A 365 hour Mixed Reality Performance by Micha Cárdenas / Azdel Slade. Linked from Brooklyn is Watching.


[edit] SUITE STELLA

Hobo Lounge

"I recently came across the hobo scene in SL and met the hobo king and wanted to bring a segment of that slifestyle to your sim. i stood there amongst the clean cut prims and beautiful inoventive(sic) works of art and wanted to show an alternative. i think the beat up, scrappy look is very big in SL and a slifestyle for many and i feel my lounge (although i cant say i made the items myself) is a little insight to how different things can be in sl, and amongst the other pieces of art i think stands out quiet well." Suite Stella


[edit] SABINE STONEBENDER

Geometry in Motion

"Sabine Stonebender’s piece is like a futuristic treasure case, with this pyramid-like centerpiece rotating around at the core. This is the type of stuff I would love to see inside of Earth like a beating heart twirling around in it’s protective case. The background in the center is a bright lava red color that possesses it’s own space and existence." Shirley Marquez (1)


Ghost of the Deep


Urchin


[edit] ARM STROM

Wasps, and Various Builds Underwater


[edit] GORE SUNTZU

1000Suns

"The title really tells the story; the shape and the warm colors of 1000suns evoke the sun. But a sun much more dynamic than our own, and one that you can stare at without destroying your eyes. 1000suns is a mesmerizing kaleidoscope of glowing yellows and oranges." Shirley Marquez


Mantis Religiosa Redux

"Abstract Piece of Broadway."


[edit] SUNN THUNDERS

Boundry Conditions


[edit] MISPRINT THURSDAY

Aeroport

A circular platform on the ground is a TP node to a platform in the sky. Before you TP up, though, you can get a free parachute, which should tell you something about the piece. Standing up on the platform, you hear a voice intoning “There’s a whole, there's a hole thing, in the sky, drop down though the hole in the thing.” A square hole is cut through the middle of the platform. When you fall through the hole, your parachute opens and you drift down through whatever is in the sky. At one point, Misprint had constructed a long glowy chute through which to fall. In the video below she is falling through one of Dancoyote's megaprim pieces.


[edit] ELROS TUOMINEN

Teardrops in the rain

"They are poetic in a way I really like. To my mind some of the simplest things are the best." Jay Van Buren


[edit] BETTY TUREAUD

Pot of gold


[edit] STEPHEN VENKMAN

Family Portraits

(description needed)


[edit] CORCOSMAN VOOM

Self Portrait in Red

"Spend any time in Second Life and you will see dozens, if not hundreds or thousands, of art objects that are scripted to move. After thirty, or perhaps sixty, seconds the object begins to repeat its cycle. This one doesn't repeat. That is to say, I have not seen it repeat and I've looked at it quite a bit. It never looks precisely the same. I was asked to make a self portrait for a future group show without using photographs. I'm happy with this." (from the notecard)


[edit] SHELLINA WINKLER

ARTWORDS

Word Art-Words conjure worlds


The Big Bang

Shellina Winkler and Solkide Auer both placed works on the sim a week apart (apparently) with the big bang theme, Solkides' was called Big Bang. They often work together.


Freedom Bound

Little motion (and what motion exists is in an unexpected place at the top of the bars, rather than the seemingly dynamic form within), modest use of glow, and subdued colors. This time she is making a different statement, with the art and its title, about restriction of freedom. The form inside the bars looks like something that should be in motion; it’s a bit reminscent of the moving forms in the old video game, Qix. Perhaps the bars, by confining it to a small space, have prevented it from moving or taken away its will to move and change.


Luminescence

An immersive ambient divided into eight radial multicolor corridors. Every corridor takes to a colorful center. Tha avatar inside the work is wrapped by a constant flux of smooth changing of lights and colors.


Second Star to the Right

"Second Star to the right" has been created to be seen at night. It's the better setting to catch particles, colors and tranparences. Its title, more than the work, describes the trip I made upon it. Sitting on it, under a black sky , lighted up by rotating multicolor little sparkles I floated with it searching Neverland...


Psychedelic dream

Shellina Winkler offers us a globe full of swirling colors. The bright colors and the somewhat paisley-like texture of some of the swirling prims are presumably the source of the name.


[edit] TSUI YAMABUSHI

Brooklyn is Wanking

Tsui replaced the regular Brooklyn is Watching sign with this affectionate parody.


"It was jarring for me to see it, it had an emotional impact, I felt violated." Boris Kizelshteyn


"I thought it was pretty funny." Jay Van Buren


"Are we wanking?" Amy Freelunch


[edit] FOUR YIP

Chairs

The chairs have been shown at BiW, and later also at SL5B BiW.


Tableaux

"Most of four Yip's exhibits invite you to take a seat on a poseball and suddenly a part of you disappears, or you are integrated into the art piece." Bettina Tizzy


[edit] JURIA YOSHIKAWA

Alien Invasion of BIW Tower


Alien Landing in Granny’s Candy Dish

"I guess you can’t keep a big artist down! Juria is back this week with a large work that covers most of Brooklyn is Watching; it is up high enough that it doesn’t interfere with ground level viewing at all, but you can fly up and see the entire gallery through Juria’s semitransparent glowing lens. It’s pretty enough in its own right (it changes color and moves around), but I enjoyed looking at other things through it even more." Shirley Marquez


Aurora Room Remix


Broken Rainbow Cloudy Night

Here's an eyeball busting piece that reminds me of Frank Stella sort of after the fact. It's as if Stella's piece "Sunset Beach, Sketch" got thrown into a blender, sprayed with glow-in-the-dark paint and was placed in the sky in suspended kinetic animation.


Cone Space


Cranial Probe Motif


A Flight Through Dots


Metagumbo Filmscape


Neon Glow Party


Pinky


Rainbow Orchestra


Self-Disorganizing Fence


Spheres in Change


Trap the Tower

work by Juria's alt Andres Watanabe


Tunnel Vision


Big Rainbow Ichibot Retaliators


A Window Into Your Mind


[edit] JURIA YOSHIKAWA & ICHIBOT NISHI

Cranial Probe Motif + episodic.ichicon.megabot.01 + High Beams Green




end of nominations.



[edit] REMOVED because they were added late

(sad, but trying to be fair by sticking to the published rules and deadlines):


[edit] DANCOYOTE ANTONELLI a.k.a. DC Spensley

Twitchy "Originally called LTA for the lighter than air quality of this megalithic sculptural assembly. This artwork is named in honor of an almost organic and seemingly random twitching on a large scale, like a dinosaur getting a chill next to you."


Grapes of Math '

Color Pixel Board

Lime Shuffle


Grapes of Math

Color Pixel Board

Lime Shuffle

Series of documentary stills that fly-thru large cluster of DC artworks at BiW in May, 2008:

"This is DanCoyote hogging tons of eyeball space during a lull in the Juria Duel of '08..."

"Brass Sculptie Animated Assembly detail"

"Shatter Sphere, Sculptie Mode"

"HyperFlock"



Cartesian Space

Hostile Space


Pink Soldarity Sim Intervention (located off the sim, left. "Created during Arahan's Pink Revolution at BiW in 2008."



SL UI Hacking Consoles "These one-of-a-kind user interface hacks enable unique configurations of shapes that evolve over the course of a day, week or longer like the Reflexive Towers."

Reflexive Towers Low Frequency Peformance "Many variations of this type of tower appeared over a week. The tower changed at least daily, with periods of intense real time evolutions. "

[edit] Save for Next Year:

[edit] WERNER KUROSAWA

The work is a huge sphere made of huge cylinders which are hugely orbiting the Popcha sim, accessible only at their very tippy tops, up at 1000 or so meters. They add context to everything in the sim, being interesting enough to look at in their own right, and also subtle enough to avoid detracting from other work going on. They also seem to have become a fixture on the sim.

Did Werner's giant steel sphere of megas make it under the one-year wire? Hmm. Talk about mixed metaphors. Because if it did, I want to see it nominated, and also reproduced in RL at Jack The Pelican Presents. If not, put it in the Next Year bin.

Oddly enough, I can't seem to find any photos of it.

No this is another next years piece, I am sure that none of Werner's work appeared at BiW until after podcast #52.

Dekka


[edit] COMET MORIGI

Mountains ** I think this should be disqualified because it was too late - podcast 58 and the cut off for year 1 is #52**

sorry - my fault - oberon

A chain of mountain ranges appears on the BIW horizon, but they cannot be reached by flying, teleporting, or any other normal means of transport. The mountains are in "the void" and made of several huge sculpted megaprims. If anyone has a link and the real name, please add them here.

Discussed in podcast #58

Images


[edit] MISPRINT THURSDAY, OBERON ONMURA, AND CINCO PIZZICATO

V-TV Art Verbal Television

Image 1

Discussed in podcast #53

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