Friday, August 29, 2008
The Artistic Medium
While exploring the truly interesting world of Second Life, I couldn’t help notice many different examples of “medium”. The most prevalent in my mind was through the arts. I’ve come to notice that many people use Second Life as an artistic medium. Being that Second Life is a visual chat room, more or less, any additional audio or eye-catchers help draw attention to specific members. I will talk about that more in my next post about audience. Using the arts in Second Life separates members apart, making an individual member unique in this strangely similar world. Through my discoveries thus far, being good at a specific artistic talent can draw a lot of attention, just like in the real world. Along with that, one must put forth a lot of effort into promoting him/herself so that more people can be aware of these talents. The ability to post personal artwork and music easily in Second Life gives the virtual artist slightly more of an edge over the real-life artist. With a cheap cost involved, anyone can promote their own music or artwork by posting it all over the world of second life. The streaming media feature will automatically stream the music for those who are nearby. This idea of easy recognition may be a reason many artists turn to second life for their own personal artistic medium.
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Mike, I will use this box to comment on both posts for this week. I am intrigued by your analysis of the medium of music within the medium of Second Life. I had not thought about this before, but the notion that someone could promote his or her music in a virtual space to build a fan base outside of Second Life is very interesting. As an artist, I see why this makes you pause and examine the efficacy or "realness" of these musicians.
Each post could have been greatly enhanced by specific examples--you could have compared something from your "real" life as a musician to something specific about the virtual music industry in Second Life. What is it about the virtual possibilities in Second Life (note that I use the multiple meanings of "virtual" there) that makes for becoming a musician or artist?
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