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This edition provides a permanent documentation of the art being created in Second Life as featured on the SLART^TM website. It includes interviews with and full color images of work by many of the most significant innovators in SL art: Sasun Steinbeck, DanCoyote Antonelli, Bathsheba Dorn, Filthy Fluno, Adam Ramona, Seifert Surface, Sabine Stonebender, and Nomasha Syaka, as well as emerging SL artists.

The limited edition is produced by Richard Minsky, who resides in Second Life as ArtWorld Market. He is considered a leading expert on Second Life Art, and has been written up in artnet, Financial Times Deutschland, Die Zeit, and Artnet, among many others, was interviewed by Kurt Andersen on Public Radio International's Studio 360, and performed a 1˝ hour tour of Second Life Art at Location One in New York City that was simulcast in Second Life.

Richard has been making limited edition and unique books for over 30 years and is the Founder of The Center for Book Arts in New York City. The Richard Minsky Archive is at Yale University. You can see his work at minsky.com.

In August, 2007 he presented a paper in the Business Track of the Second Life Community Conference in Chicago on "The Art World Market of Second Life." This is the first study of its kind, examining the differences and similarities between real life and Second Life art, including aesthetic, technical, legal and economic factors. This study is included in this SLART^TM monograph. In time, the SLART^TMwebsite and Blog will disappear, along with Second Life as it now exists. Other 3D metaverse worlds will appear, the hardware will enable true 3D viewing, and it will become an even more immersive experience. But this book will remain as a record of the pioneering artists whose efforts have already inspired many derivative works. Hundreds of years from now this archival publication will be able to be read, without any electronic devices, the same we we now can read books from a thousand or more years ago.

SLART^TM monographs are printed in high resolution on a HP Indigo 5000 digital offset press, using some of the most durable inks available for color printing on archival paper.

Above: Bathsheba Dorn's Flying Ammonite, a scripted vehicle sculpture.
Bathsheba's geometric sculpture avatar is in the seat.
ArtWorld Market's male avatar is in the other seat.

Above: ArtWorld Market's female avatar

SLART^TM Deluxe Edition Book

$500.00

SLART^TM Limited Edition Book

$200.00

Institutional Collections with Richard Minsky editions
In most institutions Minsky books are kept in the Rare Books department of the Special Collections Library. You may have to make an appointment to read one. Call ahead, find the location of the book (you can usually search the online catalog), and ask about the procedure, as it varies from one place to the next.

* indicates that institution has the above SLART^TM monograph

Deluxe Editions
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
*Yale University Library, New Haven CT
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Limited Editions
*Stanford University, CA
Honnold/Mudd Library, Claremont, CA
*Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
*University of California, Davis, CA
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
*Maryland Institute College of Art
University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Reed College, Portland, OR
*The Morgan Library & Museum, New York City
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
*University of Wisconsin, Madison WI
Pennsylvania State University, University Parrk, PA
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec Canada
*North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
The Grolier Club , New York City
*The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
FSU/John and Mable Ringlng Museum of Art, Sarasota,FL
Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE
California State Library, Sacramento, CA
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta Canada
*Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
*University of California, Los Angeles, CA
*University of California, San Diego, CA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Victoria & Albert Museum, South Kensington London UK
New Mexico State University
*Ohio University Aesthetic Technologies Lab, Athens, OH
New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH
Boston Athenćum, Boston, MA
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
*Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI
*Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Bienes Museum of the Modern Book, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
*Art Institute of Chicago, Flaxman Library
*York University, Toronto, Canada

CD-ROM Editions
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario Canada
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
The Athenćum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Duke University, Durham, NC
HarvardCollege, Cambridge, MA
California State University, Fullerton, CA
Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin
Ohio University Library, Athens, OH
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA