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by Daruma Picnic, the work is titled Voices A Cappella: An
interactive Singing sculpture. Across from it is a similar
work titled Instrumental, in which passing through a color
plane elicits a plucked bass note or percussion element. It is
currently installed outside the Library
Gallery on Info Island.
Within the
gallery are other interactive works, including abstract
geometric compositions in which each element changes color when you
click on it.
A
series of Floating Overlay Paintings, all done in 2007, uses
animated prims to move layers of felt-tip and pencil drawings in a
continuously shifting display. Reminiscent of early film animation
techniques, the abstract images evoke Miro, Ossorio's Recovery
series, and Outsider
art.
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Daruma credits
Adam Ramona as an inspiration for the sound sculpture, and for
scripting aid. See our Avatar photos of Adam
and Daruma. The
development of interactive SL light sculpture builds on the work
of Dancoyote
Antonelli [whose Zero
G Sky Dancers are legendary in Second Life, and whose
floating plane paintings are exhibited among other places, at the
Museum of Hyperformalism and the Djorkenheim Museum], Sabine
Stonebender, whose immersive environment has to be
experienced, and Sasun Steinbeck, who has been
developing a single scripted lightwork for two years. Also
see the article on Hyperformalism
and Mathematical Art. |
