[spectre] Turbulence Guest Curators: Ars Virtua

[Turbulence]

September 8, 2006
Turbulence Guest Curators: Ars Virtua
http://turbulence.org/curators/arsvirtua

A few months ago, we invited "Ars Virtua" (http://www.arsvirtua.com/)--a new
media center and gallery located entirely in the synthetic world of Second
Life--to curate an exhibition of Turbulence works for Turbulence.org. James
Morgan, Amy Wilson and Jay Van Buren rummaged through our ten-year old
archive and produced "honesty is our policy" with works by Cory Arcangel
(Urbandale), Nicolas Clauss (Heritage), and David Crawford (Stop Motion
Studies).

".Honesty may seem like a hokey notion in "real-life," but in an environment
like Second Life, honesty is all you have. Absent social cues, history,
nature, all one has to go on is the trust in another that this is how they
view reality, and to interact with anyone on a meaningful level, that
version of reality must be accepted." - Amy Wilson

"Ars Virtua" is a new type of space that leverages the tension between 3D
rendered game space and terrestrial reality, between simulated and
simulation. It brings the art audience into "new media" rather than new
media to the museum or gallery, and calls upon its audience to interact with
the art and one another via their avatars within the space. To visit Ars
Virtua simply create a free account in Second Life
(http://secondlife.com/join) and run the current client
(http://secondlife.com/download). Once you have this properly installed
follow this link - secondlife://Dowden/20/40 - directly to Ars Virtua.

Opening Tonight! September 8, 7-9 pm SLT (Pacific Time).
http://slurl.com/secondlife/dowden/42/59/52/?title=Ars%20Virtua"

BIOGRAPHIES

JAMES MORGAN has shown work internationally and has recently produced a
commission for ISEA2006/ZeroOne.

AMY WILSON is an artist represented by Bellwether in New York City. She has
shown her work at numerous places, including PS1, The Drawing Center, and
The Andy Warhol Museum, and has been reviewed in Art in America, The New
York Times, the Village Voice, and Time Out NY among others. She teaches art
history and drawing at the School of Visual Arts.

JAY VAN BUREN is an artist and web designer based in Brooklyn New York. He
has curated and worked in design under the name early-adopter.com for the
past 7 years. He was the founder and co-director of Videoland Gallery in
Manhattan's lower east side and has exhibited paintings in New York, Kansas
City and Washington DC.

For more Turbulence Guest Curators, visit http://turbulence.org/curators

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