This is the final week of Artistide Despres' Full Sim creation at Linden Endowment for the Arts' sim LEA6. If you haven't seen it, be sure to. After this week, all that will be left are the photos and the memories.
Artistide Despres has made a name for herself as one of the leading artists in Second Life®. Her works often include musical elements and cynicism about the commercial world. Both are driving forces in her current exhibit. Originally titled "Research on Musical Instruments", the project grew to include forces that Despres felt were attacking her "small creative ivory tower", such as Fukushima, the war machine, and the financial world, and when it was finished, was titled "Where I found my Ivory Tower Surrounded by a Huxleyan World, Which Turned out to be an Orwellian World".
In the exhibit, the artist stands pole in hand, fending off a dystopian world in which urban skyscrapers rise from the sea while Greek holiday houses spread like mushrooms and swarms of black bugs swarm. The audio consists of a mixture of semi-random sounds, partly generated by objects colliding with visitors, with bits of music inspired by mid-twentieth century composer Olivier Messiaen.
If you visit the exhibit, be sure to use Viewer 3; it's required for the mesh in the exhibit. You can download the official Second Life Viewer 3 at secondlife.com/support/downloads/ or you can download the third party viewer Firestorm at www.phoenixviewer.com. When you visit the exhibit, be sure to turn off streaming media and music, and to turn on sound effects.
Second Life members can visit the exhibit by clicking maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA6/121/130/24. You can see photographs in the slide show accompanying this article.
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