Lost your password?

Virtual Reality

Maurice Benayoun. Just Dig/It!

Redazione Digicult
The exhibition Just Dig/It! presents the large-scale installation Inside the Tunnel under the Atlantic created by Maurice Benayoun. The virtual project that linking the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal, trying to connect the people and let them explore the space in a different and virtual way.... READ MORE...
ArtNews

Cao Fei: Demolishing The Virtual. Rmb City And The Crisis Of Art-reality

Robin Peckham
Chinese artist Cao Fei formally launched her last major project, RMB City, almost two years ago in January 2009. Nearing the end of its predetermined lifespan, the Second Life platform should come to an end within the next several months. At this juncture I have been attempting to take the pulse of the virtual community as a whole, speaking with current and former collaborators on RMB City, collectors, writers, and other interested observers in order to figure out how to measure the success or failure of the digital metropolis. See below for a summary of the findings so far; next month in this space we will continue this survey with a debriefing on Chinese art in Second Life... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 59, November 2010

Cam Girls And Sex On Second Life: A Report

Marco Riciputi
Rocco Siffredi sounded the alarm: You Porn is killing the porn industry. A cry of starlets like Eve Laurence withdraws from the business main stream to provide its community of fans tailored services, without passing by production houses, in perfect style participatory pornography. The magazine Focus goes on sale with a dossier on MP3 players that are vibrators to the music, equipment wii remote to masturbate with your partner and kiss-phone prototype that simulates the kisses. The Orgasmatron in Woody Allen's comparison of all this affection. While waiting to be able to have fun with the wii with my favorite cam girl who sends me in 3D, take the technological revolution of sex very seriously and I do a tour in the Red Light District in Second Life.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 49, November 2009

_augmentology 1[l]0[l]1_:interface Between Two Worlds

Mark Hancock
The _Augmentology 1[L]0[L]1_ project reaches out into a multitude of networked environments, like a multi-tendrilled creature, it explores and reports back information to a central hub, located at the _Augmentology 1[L]0[L]1_ blog. Existing in the virtual, the task is to explore other synthetic worlds and attempt to reflect back something of the nature of living within them and our own world. The resultant collection of projects and ideas can be considered a 'Synthetic Reality Manual' as Mez Breeze, who initiated the project, describes it.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 45, June 2009

The Neo World Of Virtual Life

Marco Riciputi
Virtual constitutions, virtual nations, 3D environments, democracy, censorship, some of the keywords contained in a draft virtual reality 'to Second Life', funded by the European Union. The three-year project from 3.3 million euros, Virtual Life is a 3D environment that is the basis for a secure and reliable communication, to develop trade, educate and entertain.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 44, May 2009

Janez Jansa Exhibition

Redazione Digicult
On the occasion of the publication of the book RE:akt! Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting , published by FPEditions and edited by Antonio Caronia, Janez Jansa and Domenico Quaranta, Fabio Paris Art Gallery is proud to announce the exhibition SS-XXX | Die Frau Helga. The Borghild Project Reconstruction (2007), by the Slovene artist Janez Janša.... READ MORE...
News Archive

The Aesthetics of Gaming

Redazione Digicult
Pace Digital Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition curated by Michelle Kasprzak, The Aesthetics of Gaming. Explore Anita Fontaine + Mike Pelletier's CuteXdoom II and Joe Mckay's Avoid that present two interactive scenarios with strong aesthetic qualities that are radically different to the look, feel, and modus operandi of a typical commercial game!... READ MORE...
News Archive