Feather Boa's "Broken Angel"
Across the room you see two classic columns, and an angel flying carefree among the clouds between them. You walk closer. Without warning the columns shatter into fragments onto the ground around you. You look up. The angel is now on her knees, weeping, the sky behind her a conflagration. It is Feather Boa's "Broken Angel", one of the art works you can bid on in the silent benefit auction "Artists Caring for Artists that begins today and runs for two weeks, until September 4, 2009.
The auction has been organized in Second Life by the Caerleon Art Collective, a group of world famous virtual artists who utilize ‘Second Life’ to produce immersive artworks, Artificial Life forms, and digitized representations of RL art pieces. All monies raised from the two week auction will be used to allow established artists to continue their work despite the recent withdrawal of major RL funding.
Sowa Mai's "Hands"
These pictures don't do the art justice. Many are dynamic, some changing shape as you approach them and changing back as you walk away, others are in constant motion, such as Sowa Mai's "Hands". The still picture shown here shows images very much like Second Life's hand logo, but when you see it in Second Life, it's a spinning, constantly changing image.
The auction is an opportunity for you to acquire virtual world art by established artists and to at the same time help them to continue their work. Bidding will last for two weeks, beginning August 22, 2009. To place a bid, you click on the sign next to the art you want to buy, and then you make a bid by clicking "Pay" and paying the amount of your bid. If your bid is highest when the auction ends, you get that piece of art. One thing that may be confusing: all bidding is in multiples of L$200 (200 Lindens): L$200, L$400, L$600, etc. Bids that aren't multiples of L$200 will be rejected. You can see the current highest bid in floating text over the sign.
Some of the art you can bid on
You can read more about the Caerleon Art Collective and its Virtual Art Initiative at its website, and Second Life members can teleport to the blind auction by clicking slurl.com/secondlife/Esterhal/197/222/23.
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Comments
Thanks for coming and being a part of all of this. Great articles! Some wonderful art on display and some very generous people...made the first night truly spectacular!
I'm a bit unclear on why this is a benefit? Usually benefits are for someone other than the sponsors pockets. Could you clarify?
Rikomatic, the following is what the auction's SL notecard says:
"Caerleon is a ‘not for profit’ enterprise and with funding sources being slashed due to the global economic crisis, this pro active group of artists have combined forces to organize the ‘Artists caring for Artists’ auction.
"All monies raised from the two week auction will be used to sustain the inspiring work that is being created here and to allow established artists to continue their work despite the recent withdrawal of major RL funding."
Thanks for coming and being a part of all of this. Great articles! Some wonderful art on display and some very generous people...made the first night truly spectacular!
Just to be completely clear, the money does NOT go into the sponsors pockets.
The money goes to a few artists within the community who have lost everything due to this devastating economic recession, jobs, homes, medical insurance and in some cases even the means to connect to the internet. These are talented artists who have been a part of the virtual world arts community from the beginning and are in dire need. This is our small way of giving back and lending a helping hand.
NOT one penny will go to the sponsors, everything raised will go to these artists to allow them to continue contributing to the virtual art community and enriching our lives in the process.
A great event and beautiful pieces are being presented. The artists of SL need all kind of support so they can shine like stars they are. Congratulations for the event and for this article
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