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Aug 13th 2007 3:46PM Hi! Little correction for the above.
DanCoyote opens a massive fine art exhibition at Arts and Letters simulation Monday, August 13 at 6PM.
This is not to be confused with the ZeroG SkyDancer show on Friday, August 17 at 7, 8 and 9PM
The Monday, August 13 exhibition is called “Full Immersion Hyperformalism” by DanCoyote!
The organizing principle behind this exhibition is to encourage guests to take advantage of Second Life's ability to "cut the tethers" that hold us in the gravity based world and gently release real life concepts like "Ground" and "Water" in favor of another, less encumbered experiential space.
Hyperformalism is formalist abstraction in hyper medium. By turning off rendering of facsimiles of real life, an eerie surreal space for viewing art is created where things no longer conform to the field of view of your avatar and where scale and context are no longer measured against the arbitrary figurative standard.
In this one-of-a-kind installation, Artist DanCoyote has created an immersive artwork that fills the entire volume of a sim. DanCoyote has exhibited work at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Jose Museum of Art (ZeroOne, ISEA), Frye Museum in Seattle (at Bumbershoots) and at the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival (DEAF07) and appears at many other venues throughout First and Second Life. More like dream space than ever before, virtual reality offers the artist a space like a gallery or museum location, but not the viewer limitations of a space fixed in physical reality. In this way virtual reality is the new art venue of the 21st century.
