The Art Newspaper embedded in Second Life
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The Art Newspaper has discovered Second Life as a platform for cultural production and has devoted a full length article on the phenomenon and even had an embedded journalist who spent six months as an avatar in this online world. He noticed that museums, universities and non-profit Âorganisations are Âgetting involved as well and show art at a fraction of the cost of organising a cultural event in the real world. There are museums and art centres you can visit with rotating displays, performances and events. There is even a copy of the Louvre online, where artists can display their own works right next to the museum’s masterpieces, like a virtual palace revolution.
But the correspondent also noticed that there is a downside for institutions and artists wishing to establish their names online: the millionaire elite who spend big bucks on well established art has little interest in selfproclaimed artists in Second Life who represent an environment which is intrinsically democratic and anti-elitist. They rather stick to the rules of institutional authority that still shape the physical world.
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