If you can't make it to Dresden this summer, consider teleporting. The pearl of the city's museum collection, the Old Masters Picture Gallery, recently opened a virtual version of itself in Second Life. Wired | Quondam
Now this is interesting, though not because of the spatial/visual/visceral aspect of the space.
It is rather intruguing to see all these avatars having their 'radical self-expression' in the online world, while you probably won't easily see a goth girl brave enough flying around a gallery in Dresden at any time in the real world (except The Dresden Dolls perhaps). You can probably even see people making out inside the gallery in SL, if you are lucky enough.
Also interesting is the surprisingly low security of the space unlike the real gallery. I can bump and crash into the most expensive paintings in this online world, while I am probably in custody if I do that in real world. Though however, what happens actually is that the security rules are actually an embedded part of the 'physics' of Second Life. You simply cannot destroy a painting, period.
I guess it's a matter of time when nanotechnology will do the exact same thing (in terms of altered physics) in the real world.
The Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners proposal's similarity to Isengard Tower in Lord of the Rings is a little too coincidental. Northern California is clearly trying to dominate middle earth.
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Now this is interesting, though not because of the spatial/visual/visceral aspect of the space.
It is rather intruguing to see all these avatars having their 'radical self-expression' in the online world, while you probably won't easily see a goth girl brave enough flying around a gallery in Dresden at any time in the real world (except The Dresden Dolls perhaps). You can probably even see people making out inside the gallery in SL, if you are lucky enough.
Also interesting is the surprisingly low security of the space unlike the real gallery. I can bump and crash into the most expensive paintings in this online world, while I am probably in custody if I do that in real world. Though however, what happens actually is that the security rules are actually an embedded part of the 'physics' of Second Life. You simply cannot destroy a painting, period.
I guess it's a matter of time when nanotechnology will do the exact same thing (in terms of altered physics) in the real world.
The Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners proposal's similarity to Isengard Tower in Lord of the Rings is a little too coincidental. Northern California is clearly trying to dominate middle earth.
http://iamonhold.blogspot.com/2007/08/lord-of-rings-meets-893m-san-francisco.html
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