Hrag Vartanian

Email interview (March 16, 2007)
1 - How did you become involved in Second (SL) art?
Well, I am an artist in real life (rl). I first started second life after my rl aunt and uncle read about it in “Spin magazine”. They came in, and saw what an incredible world it was. So I came in [...]

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(Brooklyn Rail, April 2007)
http://brooklynrail.org/2007/4/artseen/secondlife-art
Now that the Internet is ubiquitous and many of us prefer email, instant messaging and online chat rooms to live conversation, it was only a matter of time before our cultural pursuits followed us online as well. Now, a “virtual world” known as Second Life (www.secondlife.com), is offering a venue for the [...]

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It’s happened, Episode 1 of some new YouTube series has been posted and pushes some boundaries for online video. Here’s the premise & the first episode (04:48) of this minimovie:
…shot entirely in the popular online world Second Life…Filmmaker Douglas Gayeton came across a series of seven video dispatches by a character named Molotov Alva…a man [...]

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I interviewed Richard Minsky for an upcoming article on art in Second Life (SL) for The Brooklyn Rail (which will appear in the April 2007 edition–here), and found his insights into the burgeoning art medium to be insightful and clear. So, I decided to post it online to help anyone interested in the online arts.
Richard [...]

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