Ok… i know june is not over yet… but i wasn’t quite sure i could say best artwork ever and best of the week just wasn’t BIG enough.
this work was already written about by amy- but now that i know who did it I need to give credit. IT was called soma.talk ( right Ichibot?) and it was by Ichibot Nishi- a bunch of invisible boxes around the sim which spoke words as if they were being said by avatars that had passed by previously.
I’m hoping Mr. Nishi will post on here and tell us how the hell he did this… but i just want to say a couple things about it real quick:
1) It wouldnt have worked in another kind of space — depends on people you know being the ones who ’said’ things to make you not be able to help but pay attention
2) the exact nature of the content of the words it said was PERFECT- great mix of banal and poetic.
3) it uses the very substance of the space of SL: community and communication– is this “hyperformal”?!! too bad DC is taking a break from SL– maybe he’s reading the blog still though– but you know what i mean? it is really using the medium.
Lastly i’m glad its gone because it was annoying.. which was part of what was good about it.
ok, that’s my two cents- what do the rest of you think? Nominate your most interesting artwork and give your reasons.