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A Digital Christo

Turning virtual play into real world art.

Lozano-Hemmer website

Bespoke digital worlds

Grand Text Auto points to the Kaneva site, who are opening their games engine and servers to developers to create their own MMO games. Due to the online persistence and multiuser aspects this is a progression from open source game engines such as the Nebula Device.

Article reminds me of my pre-’turn of the century’ musings on the possibilities of a true ‘digital art’ virtual world - one curated by filmmaker Peter Greenaway, or populated by the imagination of an artist like Matthew Barney.

Sense of Unreality

In life, he suffered from a sense of unreality, as do many Englishmen.
– “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” Jorge Luis Borges

Defining digital art

Emerging areas are by definition hard to define. This is what makes them so exciting. They are a free for all, with everything in the medium/media still to be played for.

Is this why digital art is so hard to define? Is it the same as media arts, interactive art, new media, net art, software art? Subtle differences arise in the terms, and also betray radical differences over approach and ideological stance in the terms.

To a certain extent the problem lies in practitioners and theorists not stamping enough authority on how it should be viewed, and what it should be called. The area of digital art is evolving rapidly, and it needs some definitions of genres and areas for these help formulate a narrative arc and history. Or perhaps I feel like this because of my predilection for the Borgesian.

On Focus

• No meta-blogging.
• No Web 2.0
• No tech obsession
• No gadget lust
• No off-topic

This website will be a container for investigating Digital Art inc. generative, glitch, interactive, locative, wireless, robotic, etc.

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