Destroy Television was a really cool-sounding project that created in 2006 by electric sheep. Unfortunately I completely missed it at the time (reader, did you see it, what did you think?) but i heard about it sometime in the spring of last year and read all the documentation on the web about it. I see it as a precursor to Brooklyn is Watching. DTV allowed visitors to a website to control an avatar who was walking around life-blogging its every move through constant automated flickr uploads. Destroy Television was for a limited time, and it was Web-to-SL, so it sounds like it essentially became the same group of people controlling the view point and being viewed. Brooklyn is Watching is less egalitarian, and more focused on social relationships because it brings in at least some degree of potential distance between the watched and the watchers. Its also more ridiculous and therefore funnier… well to me anyway. Because control of Monet, the Brookly is Watching avatar,  will be only available to people who live in or can visit Brooklyn, the entire project is tied directly to a particular place. Because that place is a contemporary fine art gallery it is tied to a particular (delightfully strange, insular)  stream of commentary and critical dialog. The Podcast, I’ve been telling people is going to be “art people talking about second life” and indeed some of us are complete SL noobs and some of us don’t even particularly like second life– and then some of us love it– so it should make for some good arguments.  Our plan is to do this for (at least) a full year so we hope that we’ll get an active community of people participating in the project

Posted by jvanb on Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 at 6:35 am.