[NetBehaviour] NetBehaviour Digest, Vol 119, Issue 2

Helen Varley Jamieson helen at creative-catalyst.com
Thu Aug 30 09:40:21 CEST 2007


well i'd be interested except for being already over-committed 
already in my own virtual factory ...  : )

i've also been participating in the empyre discussion on second life 
& like you it isn't an environment that grabs me. it's been fun to 
get to know it a bit better, & to do the gallery tours with others; & 
i'm really happy with my tail : )  but in terms of a creative 
platform i'm much more comfortable & creative in UpStage or Visitors 
Studio ...

will be interesting to see what happens with SL.

h : )

>Very funny, as an old activist (four years in jail, etc, etc), I am
>fully conscient nothing can be achieved by sheer will or alone.
>Bauhaus was the expression of a special time, the Weimar republic and
>it's contradictions, the Factory was the expression of Warhol carisma
>and his need of an arena for his own productions. We need other
>expressions and other arenas, I am discussing in -empyre the value of
>the new virtual worlds as frames for activism and art. Many argue than
>Second Life can transform itself to one of those creative hubs I long
>to, but I have been in SL several times and never been attracted to
>it, a bit too sterile and chic for me :)
>But I am game if someone is interested in a virtual or not virtual Bauhaus...
>Ana
>
>On 8/30/07, Helen Varley Jamieson <helen at creative-catalyst.com> wrote:
>>  please don't wait for it, make it happen if it's what you really want ...
>>
>>  h : )
>>
>>  >I was in Faces myself, but never found it was useful to generate new
>>  >thinking, it was most linking and socializing among women who knew
>>  >each other. But it was not a great collaborative place...
>>  >I think Marc's Furtherfield, Post.Thing, -empyre are this list are for
>>  >me the places where I find myself most intellectual nutrition.
>>  >Faces was (is?) most a linking to people's projects but not a
>>  >discussion place.
>>  >I am still waiting for a net Bauhaus, a net The Factory...
>>  >
>  > >Ana

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