Virtual Moves
VIRTUAL MOVES is a row of 4 international art exhibitions in SecondLife (SL) and at Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK) in Copenhagen organized by TAGGING ART. The aim of the exhibitions is to explore and challenge SL as a platform for artistic practice, a public space, and a cultural community and to discuss critically how SL affects our notion of reality. The set off is a critical point of view and experimental focus. VIRTUAL MOVES explores the blog and SL as different digital platforms.
8 artists are invited to create a visually moving art piece each in which they consider SL as a platform for art and artistic interaction. The works are created especially for this event by Mogens Jacobsen (DK), Sachiko Hayashi (JP/SE), Nis Rømer (DK), Maria Lavman Vetö(SE), Annette Finnsdottir (DK/IS), Kristoffer Gansing and Linda Hilfling(SE/DK), Jan Northoff (DE) and Ida Grøn (DK/UK).
Many of the artists create art works, which have both a virtual and a physical dimension. SL Economics, Virtual Identity, Public Space in SL, SL Gender Studies, Collective Memory and Virtual Archive are some of the themes under discussion in the art works. The progress of developing the exhibitions and works of art can be followed and commented on through this blog.
The 4 openings take place in SL and SMK: 18th of January, 1st, 15 th and 29th of February 2008, 4pm – 6pm.
A conference, Experiences & Perspectives/Virtual Art, is held in SecondLife and at Statens Museum for Kunst May 16th 2008, 3pm -5pm.
Here we summarize and discuss our experiences from working with this virtual 3D platform as well as set them in perspective to talks by invited theorists and artists.
The organisation behind Virtual Moves:
Anne Holmfred (DK)/Tag Albatros
Art Manager, Fundraiser, Head of Reality, MA in PR, business economics and IT. Lectures Art Administration at the Royal Danish ArtAcademy, Jutlands ArtAcademy and in Design Administration at the Designschool in Kolding. Previously worked for Superflex, NIFCA, tv-tv, Fast Video.
Co-Founder and part of Tagging Art – organization for moving images.
Art Manager, Fundraiser and Public Relations for Virtual Moves at Statens Museum for Kunst and Second Life – organized by Tagging Art.
Iben Bentzen (DK)/Iben Auer
Curator. MA in Visual Culture and ArtHistory.
Co-curator on Made in Video - International Festival of Experimental Video, the annual artevent AGM and founder of The Bubble - contemporary art.
Co-founder of Tagging Art – organization for moving images.
Curator on the exhibition Virtual Moves at the Statens Museum for Kunst and in Second Life - organized by Tagging Art.
Ida Grøn(DK)/Id Giha:
Documentary director, Artist, BA Art History/Film and Media. Taking MA in Visual Culture at the university of Copenhagen and in documentary directing at the National Film and Television School.
Curator, fundraiser and co-founder of Made in Video – International festival for Experimental Video.
Co-founder of Tagging Art – organization for moving images.
Artist on the exhibition Virtual Moves at the National Gallery of Denmark and SecondLife
Annette Finnsdottir (DK/IS)/Nettska Dreamscape
Media Artist, Screenwriter, Master of Art in Visual Culture and B.A. in Film-and Media Science and Design, Lecturer at Visual Culture, Copenhagen University .
Co-Founder of Tagging Art - organization for moving images.
Blogmaster (http://www.taggingart.org) and Artist in Virtual Moves - organized by Tagging Art.
Founder, Creative Director and Curator for Netfilmmakers, a non-commercial projectionsspace on the internet for netfilm, netvideoart and netart. (http://www.netfilmmakers.dk)
Second Life advisor for the VIRTUAL MOVES:
Johan Bichel Lindegaard/Sophie Zhu
Developer of visionary Second Life solutions. He strive to evolve the metaverse and through each project he makes new discoveries. Through his company Accident Designs he experiments and learn while developing clever ideas and creative functionality. Apart from Second Life he is a student at Østre Borgerdyd Gymnasium and works as a web developer. When he is not emerged in code he enjoys to fullfill gastronomic experiments.
RealityHUB is a creative group set up by Tagging Art in order to guide, document and discuss the Virtual Moves project. The group consists of 5 students Line Røjken, Maja Nydal Eriksen, Naja Nielsen, Gylle Laila Svanholmer, and PhD. Student Nina Poulsen. The group has a wide variety of competences within performance studies, anthropology, art history and new media. From Tuesday to Sunday one person from the RealityHUB will be present in the Virtual Moves exhibition in SL and in FL at Statens Museum for Kunst to guide you through the exhibition, answer your questions and help you make an avatar. After each day the RealityHUB will write a comment on the blog on observations done during the day.
VIRTUAL MOVES is financed by funding from the Danish Art Council.
