UPDATE: The Program, Week Four

So click here for full details regarding this week's exhibition, which includes two more pieces by Nathalie Djurberg, Stealing Beauty by Guy Ben-Ner, and iMirror (A Second Life Documentary Film by China Tracy a.k.a. Cao Fei).

But here's the scoop on one installation new this week. In Second Life, eteam has created a dumpster for the virtual things people there decide to delete. At right, see a bunch of "virtual-virtual" objects selected by me, Danette Dufilho, and AC Abbott per eteam's guidelines to resemble such discarded items (which were of course originally designed to look real). These objects were then photographed by Ben Britt and me from multiple angles, and eteam used the photographs to construct virtual-virtual-virtual objects, which they placed in their dumpster in Second Life -- see the following virtual photographs of the objects they made and put there (if you see the objects in "Real Life," eteam's work is even more impressive -- nice work, eteam!). Next, eteam "filmed" the programmed decay of these objects, sent me the file, and it's playing on the tv included in the installation.

The artists see Second Life Dumpster as "a continuation of their interest in the value of property, possibilities of land use, (web) site specificity, ownership, and investment."

I also see this project as, among other things, part of a trend toward art as mad scientist-experiment. See more of eteam's findings from this research here.