Comments for Gracie Kendal's Weblog http://graciekendal.wordpress.com Welcome to my blog...make yourself at home!!! Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:09:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU Comment on Second Life: A Global Art Community…. by Bruskino http://graciekendal.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/second-life-a-global-art-community/#comment-28 Bruskino Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:45:42 +0000 http://graciekendal.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/second-life-a-global-art-community/#comment-28 Hi Gracie Love your thesis idea, best of luck with it!!! I totally support you in all ways, and am very proud of you and your accomplishments! Keep up the good work as I look forward to getting to know you better and experiencing your great work! You continue to inspire and impassion me! Yours always Bruskino Hi Gracie

Love your thesis idea, best of luck with it!!! I totally support you in all ways, and am very proud of you and your accomplishments! Keep up the good work as I look forward to getting to know you better and experiencing your great work! You continue to inspire and impassion me!
Yours always

Bruskino

]]> Comment on Second Life: A Global Art Community…. by Xanna Ziskey http://graciekendal.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/second-life-a-global-art-community/#comment-27 Xanna Ziskey Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:56:16 +0000 http://graciekendal.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/second-life-a-global-art-community/#comment-27 Funny, I was just saying yesterday that I felt a 1920s artist's salon atmosphere in my SL groups at www.flickr.com I am passionate about SL photography, and frustrated that even close friends of mine look down their nose, as if my efforts are not toward "serious art." The comments and feedback I get from fellow SL snappers at FLickr are extremely encouraging, and a quick check there will show a buzz of shared techniques, places to go, outfits to buy, et cetera. With SL I get the tools to explore this amazing new art technique, but through Flickr I get the much needed camaraderie to keep going with an art form that is largely still unrecognized. my photos are at www.flickr.com/photos/xannaziskey Funny, I was just saying yesterday that I felt a 1920s artist’s salon atmosphere in my SL groups at http://www.flickr.com I am passionate about SL photography, and frustrated that even close friends of mine look down their nose, as if my efforts are not toward “serious art.” The comments and feedback I get from fellow SL snappers at FLickr are extremely encouraging, and a quick check there will show a buzz of shared techniques, places to go, outfits to buy, et cetera. With SL I get the tools to explore this amazing new art technique, but through Flickr I get the much needed camaraderie to keep going with an art form that is largely still unrecognized. my photos are at http://www.flickr.com/photos/xannaziskey

]]> Comment on Second Life: A Global Art Community…. by Fleep http://graciekendal.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/second-life-a-global-art-community/#comment-20 Fleep Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:21:34 +0000 http://graciekendal.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/second-life-a-global-art-community/#comment-20 Just wanted to alert you to an <a>opening this coming Saturday</a> by an artist that I think exemplifies some of the behaviors you're describing - Douglas Story and several others collaborated on an "only possible in virtual worlds" piece called DynaFleur, and the creators will be available this Saturday, 1/5 at a reception if you'd like to speak to them. Best of luck with your thesis, look forward to reading it! Just wanted to alert you to an opening this coming Saturday by an artist that I think exemplifies some of the behaviors you’re describing - Douglas Story and several others collaborated on an “only possible in virtual worlds” piece called DynaFleur, and the creators will be available this Saturday, 1/5 at a reception if you’d like to speak to them.

Best of luck with your thesis, look forward to reading it!

]]> Comment on Second Life: A Global Art Community…. by The Grid Live » Second Life News for January 1, 2008 http://graciekendal.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/second-life-a-global-art-community/#comment-19 The Grid Live » Second Life News for January 1, 2008 Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:13:35 +0000 http://graciekendal.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/second-life-a-global-art-community/#comment-19 [...] Gracie Kendal’s Weblog Second Life: A Global Art Community Quote from the site - Hi my friends. Wanted to Say Happy New [...] [...] Gracie Kendal’s Weblog Second Life: A Global Art Community Quote from the site - Hi my friends. Wanted to Say Happy New [...]

]]> Comment on Second Life: A Global Art Community…. by Sky Hye http://graciekendal.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/second-life-a-global-art-community/#comment-18 Sky Hye Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:29:41 +0000 http://graciekendal.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/second-life-a-global-art-community/#comment-18 An interesting experiment would be to pick a particular set of social/artistic collaborations from 1920's Paris, identify the environmental, social, political, philosophical, and aesthetic catalyst/s that set the works into motion and led to their high visibility success, then create an updated but parallel conditions in which sl artists to come together. If the setup is parallel enough, and well documented, you can compare and contrast the dynamics that result. It would help pinpoint the similarities and differences, and clarify the strengths and weaknesses of the virtual community of sl, and possibly lead to follow-up experiments that explore any hypotheses that develop out of the first. An interesting experiment would be to pick a particular set of social/artistic collaborations from 1920’s Paris, identify the environmental, social, political, philosophical, and aesthetic catalyst/s that set the works into motion and led to their high visibility success, then create an updated but parallel conditions in which sl artists to come together. If the setup is parallel enough, and well documented, you can compare and contrast the dynamics that result. It would help pinpoint the similarities and differences, and clarify the strengths and weaknesses of the virtual community of sl, and possibly lead to follow-up experiments that explore any hypotheses that develop out of the first.

]]> Comment on Second Life: A Global Art Community…. by piaqi http://graciekendal.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/second-life-a-global-art-community/#comment-17 piaqi Tue, 01 Jan 2008 17:05:57 +0000 http://graciekendal.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/second-life-a-global-art-community/#comment-17 Hi Gracie, I'm wondering by what criteria you are defining art in Second Life. On a meta-level, every piece of user-created content in SL is a sort of Digital Art though admittedly a great deal of it falls into the category of "folk art" and not "fine" art. In some ways the 3D aspect of SL opens up the perceived media so greatly that it's a whole new world, artistically speaking. I saw a real life piece several years ago that was constructed of large cut and fitted crystal glass obelisks (some close to 7 feet/~2 meters high) and huge canvases hung on the surrounding walls, along with a musical accompaniment and special lighting. Visitors were allowed to walk through the piece. Shamefully I can't remember the artist's name, sorry about that. It was a wonderful 3D art experience IRL, but in SL you can take that concept of art expanding off the canvas and out of the sculpture and go even further with it. It's even more accessible in some ways, but in the end, it's all digital media. Okay, I'll stop typing at you for now. Good luck with your thesis project. :) Hi Gracie,

I’m wondering by what criteria you are defining art in Second Life. On a meta-level, every piece of user-created content in SL is a sort of Digital Art though admittedly a great deal of it falls into the category of “folk art” and not “fine” art. In some ways the 3D aspect of SL opens up the perceived media so greatly that it’s a whole new world, artistically speaking.

I saw a real life piece several years ago that was constructed of large cut and fitted crystal glass obelisks (some close to 7 feet/~2 meters high) and huge canvases hung on the surrounding walls, along with a musical accompaniment and special lighting. Visitors were allowed to walk through the piece. Shamefully I can’t remember the artist’s name, sorry about that. It was a wonderful 3D art experience IRL, but in SL you can take that concept of art expanding off the canvas and out of the sculpture and go even further with it. It’s even more accessible in some ways, but in the end, it’s all digital media.

Okay, I’ll stop typing at you for now. Good luck with your thesis project. :)

]]> Comment on Second Life: A Global Art Community…. by honoria http://graciekendal.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/second-life-a-global-art-community/#comment-16 honoria Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:41:19 +0000 http://graciekendal.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/second-life-a-global-art-community/#comment-16 Having written a masters thesis myself I recommend that you ground your work in art history in a recognized field of performance, experimental, new media, transmedia, or conceptual art. Look at the way SL parallels the research work in any or all of those fields (recognized by your department) and draw your original conclusions. A solid and positive mentor/adviser in contemporary art will save you semesters of academic work. Good luck. Having written a masters thesis myself I recommend that you ground your work in art history in a recognized field of performance, experimental, new media, transmedia, or conceptual art. Look at the way SL parallels the research work in any or all of those fields (recognized by your department) and draw your original conclusions. A solid and positive mentor/adviser in contemporary art will save you semesters of academic work. Good luck.

]]> Comment on Second Life: A Global Art Community…. by Art Student Needs Help with Thesis « Around the Grid with Harper http://graciekendal.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/second-life-a-global-art-community/#comment-15 Art Student Needs Help with Thesis « Around the Grid with Harper Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:37:40 +0000 http://graciekendal.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/second-life-a-global-art-community/#comment-15 [...] Education, Second Life, Thesis If anyone can help out, please click through to Gracie Kendal’s Weblog, and leave a contribution in her comments.  The entire entry is as follows: Wanted to run [...] [...] Education, Second Life, Thesis If anyone can help out, please click through to Gracie Kendal’s Weblog, and leave a contribution in her comments.  The entire entry is as follows: Wanted to run [...]

]]> Comment on Second Life: A Global Art Community…. by Harper http://graciekendal.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/second-life-a-global-art-community/#comment-14 Harper Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:27:46 +0000 http://graciekendal.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/second-life-a-global-art-community/#comment-14 I don't have an actual comment right now. But I'll put up an article on <a href="harperganesvoort.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow"><em>Around the World</em></a> that links back to you here, and it might pull in some more input. I don’t have an actual comment right now. But I’ll put up an article on Around the World that links back to you here, and it might pull in some more input.

]]> Comment on Second Life: A Global Art Community…. by Cyanide Seelowe http://graciekendal.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/second-life-a-global-art-community/#comment-13 Cyanide Seelowe Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:58:22 +0000 http://graciekendal.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/second-life-a-global-art-community/#comment-13 Hey Gracie! This is a subject that I'm sure many of us contemplate... I've done some independent studies of my own on the history of computer-generated art, and it's been fascinating watching how it's grown and changed over the years. A few websites you might want to check out for a look at digital art history in general are the Database of Virtual Art (http://www.virtualart.at), Digital Art History: A Subject in Transition (http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=VdX6MYM0bHEC&dq=computer+art+history&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=xdM6eEwDMu&sig=Cx-IQtVuZ_TzLM2dr_crfzaYLoM#PPP1,M1), and the Digital Art Museum's "history" and "artists" tabs (http://dam.org/intro.htm). I can't claim to be an expert on Second Life's art history, but I'd be more than happy to sit down and hear what you have to say on the subject and shoot the breeze with you to help brainstorm :D Have a safe and happy new year, Gracie! Hey Gracie! This is a subject that I’m sure many of us contemplate… I’ve done some independent studies of my own on the history of computer-generated art, and it’s been fascinating watching how it’s grown and changed over the years. A few websites you might want to check out for a look at digital art history in general are the Database of Virtual Art (http://www.virtualart.at), Digital Art History: A Subject in Transition (http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=VdX6MYM0bHEC&dq=computer+art+history&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=xdM6eEwDMu&sig=Cx-IQtVuZ_TzLM2dr_crfzaYLoM#PPP1,M1), and the Digital Art Museum’s “history” and “artists” tabs (http://dam.org/intro.htm). I can’t claim to be an expert on Second Life’s art history, but I’d be more than happy to sit down and hear what you have to say on the subject and shoot the breeze with you to help brainstorm :D Have a safe and happy new year, Gracie!

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