I’m thinking of “Kool Aid Man in SL” here in that the diversity of the SL landscape is very real.
Where in SL resembles Newark?
The city’s online presence continues to grow, but is still plagued by ill-informed knee jerk bigotry in comments written from the comfortable remove of cyberspace. The other extreme is found in real-estate driven websites that are more positive but cast the city as a tabula rasa. I find both extremes troubling as the later ignores the present and does nothing to support future, while the former devalues and erases the past (and inconvenient aspects of the present).
Can SL be used to invoke and work with the past? The ability to make 3D print outs of objects made in SL seems well suited for architecture, memory and alternate city planning.
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This exhibit just closed on Odyssey in SL.
http://www.marcomanray.com/remap-berlin/
ABOUT REMAP BERLIN
Remap Berlin introduces a series of b&w photographs shot in the virtual world Twinity, a mirror world that reproduces a realistic 3D replica of Berlin. The photos were shot in Twinity, then geo localized in google maps, re-mapped from virtual to real, then positioned in the same point where they was shot into the mirror world.
This process exposes different levels of reality. The photos, uploaded in the photo sharing community of Panoramio, are mixed and confused with other photographs shot in the same point from real life users. Many of these photos were selected from Google Earth and become little geographical viruses.
REMAP BERLIN displays the cityscapes met by Marco Manray while roaming around the still, empty streets of Berlin in beta version. It was the next step of a journey in the metaverse, following travels in Second Life and the Chinese virtual world HIPIHI.
The exploration touchs the city edges, where streets end on the boundary line between land and sky, like in the Medieval Imaginary. They are temporary borders of a expanding universe.
Left by Dekka Raymaker on March 2nd, 2010