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Semiotic phantoms
Domenico Quaranta, “Semiotic phantoms”, first published in Spawn of the Surreal, July 30, 2007.
In my very first post, I said that the aim of this blog should be to understand what’s the meaning of the word “art” in Second Life. However, in the beginning, could be simpler – and even helpful, in order to reach that target – to understand why Second Life can be attractive for an artist operating in real life. Cao Fei is a well known and highly esteemed Chinese artist. In her curriculum she lists a lot of Biennials, and important art centers and museums such as De Appel and Migros Museum in Zurich; she was featured in magazines such as Artforum, Art Review, Flash Art and Modern Painters, and art critics such as Hou Hanru, Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Barbara Pollack wrote about her work. For the last Venice Biennale, she was invited by Hou Hanru to make a project for the China Pavillion, under the exhibition title Everyday Miracles. She built up a large, multi-chambered inflatable white installation, where the visitor can see i.Mirror (2007), her documentary trilogy about Second Life, and visit the virtual replica of the pavilion in Second Life (or is the real world installation a replica of the China Tracy Pavilion in Second Life? No matter…).
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