Umeå Museologi + Kulturanalys Hösten 2009

En kort introduktion till Second Life, om hur folk använder och upplever den virtuella världen. Kan även fungera som inspiration till de filmer KA skall göra.

Följ bara länken för att se filmen (den är dessutom transkriberad):

This is an image of the HUMlab II Island in Second Life which the students will be working with during the course. When we meet on Friday one of the things we will do is begin dividing up the land for each of the groups. Try and imagine what sort of shape and the location of the land you may like for your group. We will talk about it more on Friday.

Here is my own collection of links for online sites that deal with interaction and digital museum related materials.

“Virtual Worlds: Libraries, Education, Museums, and More”
Video Stream
Presented by Barbara Galik (Puglet Dancer in SL) and Kitty Pope (Kitty Phillip in SL)
Location: Babbage Amphitheatre

Galik and Pope, who have been active in the development of the Alliance Information Archipelago and other virtual world library projects, will discuss where we are with library service in virtual worlds and where we are going. They will discuss the the fast progress (explosion) of the project to get to the high level of collaborative development that exists today. They also will discuss what we need to do moving forward to sustain and grow library services in virtual worlds. sustain and grow.

See: Virtual Worlds: Libraries, Education, Museums, and More site

As well An Overview of Science-Related Stuff in Second Life

An interesting video about the post-colonial and museums

EXCLUSIVE: Kerry James Marshall discusses his relationship to museums during the installation of the exhibition “Black Romantic” at Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, which features five paintings from the artists “Vignettes” (2003-07) series.

Kerry James Marshalls work is based on a broad range of art-historical references, from Renaissance painting to folk art. A striking aspect of his paintings is the emphatically black skin tone of his figures, a development the artist says emerged from an investigation into the invisibility of blacks in America and the unnecessarily negative connotations associated with darkness.

The blog for the Second House of Sweden has published a list of “cool must-see places to visit, as part of the training. Here they are“. Maybe good places for inspiration and fun.

As well Maria Bäcke, who will be giving a short course in HUMlab on 6 november 2008 kl. 13:00: Att bygga och designa i Second Life (Please Register), has a video online on SL på svenska. (Real, Windows – Fast and Slow):

Att bygga och designa i Second Life
Anmälan (senast 5 november kl. 09:00)
I byggkursen kommer vi att titta på existerande byggnationer i Second Life, prova på att bygga och förändra saker samt utforska byggverktyg och föremål såsom textures, flexi och light. Vi går även igenom principerna för de nya byggelementen, så kallade sculpties, vilket innebär att man importerar 3D objekt till SL från applikationer utanför.

The thesis Avatars and the Invisible Omniscience: The panoptical model within virtual worlds is about surveillance and virtual worlds. It may be interesting for you as background study:

This research project extends the notion of panoptical surveillance into virtual worlds, and discusses the security and privacy repercussions virtual surveillance imposes on these communal spaces. An action research methodology has been used, involving the creation of artworks to engage experientially with the idea of virtual surveillance, and through an online questionnaire targeting the players of MUVEs. The artworks investigate a series of surveillance perspectives, including parental gaze, machine surveillance and self-surveillance.

These sites host hundreds of videos to help with using Second Life:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Torley

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Video_Tutorials

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Second_Life_Videos

Please watch some of these videos or use them if you have problems.

Det är inte precis första gången någon har arbetat på detta sätt in en virtuell värld (ursäkta det dåligt svenska).
Kanske om du titta här:
http://www.eng.umu.se/vw/
Det finns några likhet mellan vad sina projekt och vad vi (jag också…killen med didjeridu i bilden från länk) har gjord förut.
Vi kan prata mer om det här imorgon när vi mötas.

“In 1934, during Hitler’s ascendance to power, Walter Benjamin gave a lecture called “The Author as Producer,” at the Institute for the Study of Fascism in Paris. With urgency, Benjamin questioned the role of the author and the artist. He felt that it was their job to not just respond to what was going on from a removed observational vantage point but, as a “producer,” to engage and actively change the course of social politics. Part of being a producer is letting go of individual conceit. Revolutionary power is the autonomy of the collective idea—not the autonomy of an individual.

Curator and critic Okwui Enwezor extended this idea—the notion of the producer—to contemporary art, using it as a starting point in his 2004 lecture, “The Artist as Producer in Times of Crisis.” Artists, Enwezor says, are adapting their means of production. Not unlike avant-garde production in the early twentieth century, they are forgoing the cult of the individual artist/genius and turning towards collectivity as a strategy of resistance. On one hand, it is hard to believe that our own political climate compares to the severity of the moment of Benjamin’s lecture—when proletariat revolutions and fascism were rocking Western Europe. On the other hand, this historical link to artistic response at points of deep-felt uncertainty is compelling, especially when it is extended to the role of the curator.”

Read More of this Text Here: Curator as Producer – Michelle White & Nato Thompson -