Re: [-empyre-] dissident Art in SL?

["Kath O'Donnell" <aliak77@gmail.com>]

good point. when I used SL the most I was in Delhi in RL, and so I
bought the starter land and just kept it as land to have some space,
as there was no non-inhabited space in the RL I was living at the
time. (was there 8mths). so it was almost an escape. I just put up a
video screen to watch vlogs now & then. but people don't understand
that u don't want to build a big structure and mimic the real world or
build your dream house. I did think of building a tipi but never got
round to it. I tried to explain it a few times when people asked, but
they just wanted to buy my 'unused' land.

I wonder if you gave the people who live in shacks & on street medium
strips a space in a virtual world, what they'd make of them.

though at the time I also felt a bit guilty because here I was
priviledged enough to even buy virtual land & hang out on the net at
night, when so many around me had so little.

I'd be interested to hear if you've seen any slums in SL. there's an
amazing community aspect to them, it'd be interesting to see if that
carried over.

kath

On 8/11/07, Ana Valdés <agora158@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am missing here a core concept for me and that's the question, who
> creates Art and for  whom. If Second Life is the white framework than
> Ricardo discussed, we are again reproducing a middle class dream of
> houses, furniture, performance art to enjoy. Where are the Second Life
> shacks where a big part of the Earth population lives? Where are the
> suburbs where people being shot for crack or for other stuff? We are
> discussing the digital gap, but we are still reproducing art made in
> laboratories and in universities.



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