{"id":695,"date":"2011-01-12T05:07:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T13:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/?p=545"},"modified":"2011-01-12T05:07:03","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T13:07:03","slug":"art-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/12\/art-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"

The many-colored space you are in appears vast.\u00a0 You turn, east, west, south, north, up, or down, and you see a world of shifting colors.\u00a0\u00a0 Here and there, objects crumble while others remain steadfast.\u00a0 Even your avatar is shifting in appearance, at times appearing normal, other times seeming to glow in shifting colors.<\/p>\n

It is Betty Tureaud\u2019s Art Planet, an installation this month at University of Western Australia in Second Life.\u00a0 This is Second Life art on a scale you\u2019ve rarely seen.\u00a0 For the next six months, the University of Western Australia in Second Life will host a series of full sim installation artworks by leading virtual artists.\u00a0 Betty\u2019s is the first in the series and will be on display for the month of January 2011.\u00a0 The artists whose work will be featured over the next five months are Blue Tsuki (February), Anley Piers & Cherry Manga (March), soror Nishi (April), and Wizard Gynoid (May).<\/p>\n

The scale of this installation is breathtaking.\u00a0 It\u2019s an environment of ever shifting colors and moving objects, a place where you can very quickly lose your orientation.\u00a0 Betty says of it, “My art installation is made like a oil painting that evolves during the work. \u00a0I use transparent color surfaces as flip themselves whichever direction you look. \u00a0It allows you even to create your own paintings just turn and you see a new one. \u00a0It is you who decides what colors and patterns, your picture will serve.”<\/p>\n

Betty, a Danish artist working in both the physical and virtual worlds, provides a free car that you can rez and use for traveling around her creation, but this writer preferred just flying from point to point.\u00a0 She also provides a notecard with slurls for teleporting to the main points. \u00a0You can learn more about her and her extensive body of work at her website www.bettys-second-life.dk<\/a> .<\/p>\n

Second Life members can teleport to the installation’s entry point slurl.com\/secondlife\/UWA%20VIRTLANTIS\/104\/72\/276<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Be sure to check out the other slurls that betty provides for exploring:<\/p>\n