LEA #4

I am back to exploring the LEA sims to see what our Tier is supporting.  Today I landed at LEA #4 and had a look around.  My first impression?  "I don't understand this and I don't know how to photograph the work here and I don't even want to blog it either."  Not exactly a good start but I said I was going to blog all 20 LEA sims and blog what I find I will do.

I think I reacted that way because while the theme of interactive work ties the various exhibits on the sim together, the works are all independent and do not visually work together.   So, it took me a while to understand what I was seeing.   When I landed I got the following notecard.

On LEA4: InterACT!, curated by L1Aura Loire/Lori Landay
Opening October 15, 2 pm PDT and exhibiting until January 15, 2012
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA4/21/9/21

Virtual art can invite, or even insist, that you interact with it. The artists in this exhibition cleverly and creatively make art out of interactions between data, objects, actions, and people within and beyond the virtual world in a stunning array of installations and experiences that stretch the possibilities of virtual art. Expect the unexpected, and click whenever you can. #interactLEA Installations by:

Eupalinos Ugajin, "Bateau à planter des îles" ("Islands planting boat") 

Glyph Graves, "Diversity--A Tapestry Spun"

Lorin Tone, "The Sound Garden"

Maya Paris, "soon, soon, quick, quick, soon"

Misprint Thursday, "Is It Real?"

PinkPink Sorbet, "The Beauty of LSL"

Selavy Oh, "The Rules" 

Performances at Senses Places ongoing, and environment always open for you to experience and experiment with wiimote and livestream.  Instructions at the environment.
 Environment open for interaction always.  Get HUD and instructions


WHAT TO DO HERE?
Talk to the InterActor Fishbot for a while here at the entry.  Get and wear a "KinoEye" that will show everyone where your camera is (where you are looking!)  Take an ArtTaxi ride around the exhibition to get an overview of what's here.  Go explore.

Interact in all the installations, and also by:  tweeting about the art show (#interactLEA) and seeing your tweet in the Twitter Cove ; uploading pictures you take of the show to Flickr with the tag interactLEA and seeing them on the Flickr viewer; or make machinima of InterACT! and send the vimeo or youtube url to have it shown on a machinima viewer at the Machinima Pavilion.

As I have said before, I don't usually enjoy places and exhibits that feel like work.  So when I get a notecard that is a wall of text I am often turned off.  I suppose this makes me a lazy art consumer and many artists do not enjoy people like me who want our art to be easy to experience.  I understand that.   So, this post comes with the disclaimer "Chestnut is a lazy lazy art blogger who does not want to read long notecards to figure out the discordant collection of work on this sim"

Now that is out of the way, I will say I enjoyed my visit. The works on LEA #4 are interactive so I found myself flying and hearing music and twirling about.  I do very much enjoy art that insists that I be part of the work and in fact interactive art may be my favorite kind of virtual art.  I was trained well by the NPIRL artists that I encountered way back when I first came to SL.  I click everything just to see what it does.  You do this too, right?

 It is often hard to photograph interactive works well but I gave it a go.

The work that currently lives on LEA #4 was supposed to end on January 15th.  I have no idea how long these works will be available so scoot!  Go see!