August 29, 2008
The Accidental Artist

Alan Sondheim’s exhibition, The Accidental Artist (images above and below), in Second Life’s Odyssey contemporary art space (webpage here) is running until December and is well worth a look. Focusing on ideas of the avatar as much of Sondheim’s work has done recently the exhibition catalogue says:

The human figure’s place in art gets turned inside out here in this world of unfolded and refolded geometries. What remains of the body in the domain of the virtual? What survives the transition? Could this still be called a body? Where are we going in this crossing over into bits, why are we going there/nowhere and what does it say about the nature of human desire? At what point does a beautiful accident become a tragic mistake? Is there truly such a thing as a mistake?

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Posted by: Garrett @ 8:40 pm

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