Max Newbold (aka Beth Harris) and Sez Zabelin (aka Steven Zucker) talk about the tools of making art, and creating illusions — inspired by Devo Paint 1.2 by Meat Carver…
if the embed above doesn’t work, click here to watch the video…Smarthistory on Devo Paint
Yes, “seeing” became less literal and more metaphysical by means of being able to truly trick the eye.
Three things strike me about this, 1. When I’m in Second Life I am still in Real Life, I don’t leave one to go into the other. 2. The first apple macintosh we got into the office of approx 20 graphic designers in 1990s, we all spent hours playing with the pixel paint program we thought was the coolest thing ever. 3. That this piece uses a trick to represent shadows in Second Life, the shadow of the easel, although shadow technology exists already in SL, it’s not part of the official viewer yet and probably won’t be available for 90% of users for a long time, but this is a use of illusion within the illusion.
One last thing, I have always walked through paintings in Real Life, that illusion is always something I have been lucky enough to have in my head.
i just noticed something- Mr. Meat Carver also put Rakes all around his easel. They are a trap for people trying to use it. How does that change the meaning?
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This is a brilliant connection! I’d never really thought about it but the invention of 1-point perspective does tie directly into 2nd life. There was a shift that happened in the renaissance when point of view became locked down- 1-point perspective allowed for a level of illusion that had never before been possible but it also meant that the painting more than ever locked the viewer into one “optimal” viewing position from which the illusion was most convincing. SL allows for illusions that the viewer can walk through.
Left by jvanb on November 18th, 2008