“‘Proticipation’: The Australia Council and Social Media Arts in Virtual Worlds” presented by Peach
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- Media Politics of the Local
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- ‘Proticipation’: The Australia Council and Social Media Arts in Virtual Worlds
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Abstract:
In 2007 the Australia Council for the Arts became the first national arts funding body in the world to fund an artist residency in the virtual domain of Second Life. The successful recipients, writer Justin Clemens, visual artist Christopher Dodds and sound artist Adam Nash, proposed a mixed reality, networked project linking people in real life with avatars in a virtual world. Their residency project titled Babelswarm was a realtime, 3D sound sculpture grown from the conversion of words spoken and letters typed by people both in a physical gallery and as avatars in Second Life.
