Here
is the complete text of DanCoyote's notecard.
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“Full
Immersion Hyperformalism”
by DanCoyote!
The organizing
principle behind this exhibition is to encourage guests to take
advantage of Second Life's ability to "cut the
tethers" that hold us in the gravity based world and gently
release real life concepts like "Ground" and
"Water" in favor of another, less encumbered
experiential space.
Hyperformalism is
formalist abstraction in hyper medium. By turning off rendering
of facsimiles of real life, an eerie surreal space for viewing
art is created where things no longer conform to the field of
view of your avatar and where scale and context are no longer
measured against the arbitrary figurative standard.
In this one-of-a-kind
installation, Artist DanCoyote has created an immersive artwork
that fills the entire volume of a sim. DanCoyote has exhibited
work at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San
Jose Museum of Art (ZeroOne, ISEA), Frye Museum in Seattle (at
Bumbershoots) and at the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival (DEAF07)
and appears at many other venues throughout First and Second
Life. More like dream space than ever before, virtual reality
offers the artist a space like a gallery or museum location, but
not the viewer limitations of a space fixed in physical reality.
In this way virtual reality is the new art venue of the 21st
century.
To see the show as
intended by the artist, please take a few moments to optimize
your Second Life viewer for the exhibition by using these
keyboard shortcuts for PC or Mac:
• Turn on
Client/Server controls:
[PC = ctrl - alt - shift - D] [Mac = cmd - option - shift - D]
• Disable Camera
Constraints:
[PC = ctrl - alt - C] [Mac = cmd - option - C]
• Turn off clouds:
[PC = ctrl - alt - shift - minus] [Mac = cmd - option - shift -
minus]
• Turn off
SurfacePatch:
[PC = ctrl - alt - shift - 5] [Mac = cmd - option - shift - 5]
• Turn off Water:
[PC = ctrl - alt - shift - 7] [Mac = cmd - option - shift - 7]
• Turn off Ground:
[PC = ctrl - alt - shift - 8] [Mac = cmd - option - shift - 8]
• Set Draw Distance
to 512
[Preferences/Graphics/Draw
Distance = 512]
