By Sachiko Hayashi / Goodwind Seiling

Sachiko Hayashi is a visual artist who primarily works in video and screen-based interactive media. Her works have been shown widely internationally at various new media festivals. Her video ("boop-oop-a-doop") has been included in DVD compilation "Personas and Personalities" published by Aspect Magazine, Boston. Her net art "Last Meal Requested" was included in CD-ROM GROK, the first educational project by Rhizome, New York.

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Good SL Art - Sachiko/Goodwind’s recommendation

SL is a huge place - which makes it hard to find your way. You have to know what you are looking for and where to look for them. After a couple of months in SL, the following places are what I recommend as good places to experience SL art:

Odyssey (120, 48, 27) - a public art space dedicated to cutting-edge SL art. Eva and Franco Mattes (a.k.a. 0100101110101101.ORG)’s “Joseph Beuys’s 7000 Oaks” is permanently shown there. Also don’t miss Adam Nash’s (a.k.a. Adam Ramona) “Seventeen Unsung Songs” (East of Odyssey, East of Odyssey (58, 92, 32)). Take your time and explore what SL can offer when it is at its best.

Another place I sincerely recommend is Gazira Babeli’s “ARCHIVE”, Locusolus (134, 98, 40). You can experience fantastic interactive works by this well-known SL artist.

There are some performance and music scenes coming up in SL as well. I myself have joined one of the SL music groups called “Avatar Orchestra Metaverse”. We use huds to play compositions by our member composers (Wirxli FLimFlam, Miulew Takahe, Bingo Onomatopoeia, Maximillian Nakamura, etc.). Huds are made by Bingo Onomatopoeia and have nice visual effects, too.

Sound installations are hot in SL. Another work (”A Rose Heard At Dusk”) by aforementioned Adam Ramona is exhibited at Art at the Cavern Gallery underneath Sydney Opera House (SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE, PONDEROSA, (Ponderosa (144, 58, 32)) and his other works are found at his own space: Ramonia, Marni (220, 200, 23). In Juria Yoshikawa’s installations sound often plays an important role. She recently opened her new sim that hosts her works (Garden of Memespelunk, North Dolores (128, 104, 32)). Her “Liquid Light” is hosted at Princeton (Princeton North (188, 117, 30)) and worth a visit. Another SL artist worth mentioning is nnoiz Papp who seriously works with sound. His works can be experienced at his space: al Schiffbruchbay (177, 85, 22) and al Schiffbruchbay (142, 80, 23).

Hz (http://www.hz-journal.org), which I edit, is going to publish an article about SL art in its upcoming issue. The article is written by Domenico Quaranta and was first published in a shorter version in Italian Flash Art; Hz is going to present its full-version. It is under the process of translation now - I can’t wait to read it.

I’ll keep you posted as I find more good art in SL.

Spread good-will and good-art in SL!

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