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Mogens Jacobsen / Art Magne

Mogens Jacobsen is an artist who has been working with digital art and audio since 1983. In the 1990ties he was primarily operating within net.art. And in 1995 he was a founding member of the Danish art group “The Artnode Foundation”. In the beginning of the current millennium, he grew tired of the GUI (graphical user interface) as an artistic medium. From that time he has mainly been working with networked physical installations.

Avatars – style & look

It seems like there are 2 main lines in styling your avatars: The perfect western (mostly white) Hollywood body and the (European?) subversive Goth-look.
My avatar – Art Magne – is not a primary player in my project. But only a body to operate in SL. I really spend some time trying to style the looks [...]

Technical requirement to the (physical) exhibition-space

As we spoke (shortly) about at the meeting Dec. 10th, there are some requirements to the internet access from within the museum.
For safety reasons a lot of institutions have closed most of the TCP-ports (except port 80 for access the web  and port 25 and 110 for emails). By according to the SL FAQ some [...]

Cubes

My project will be a sort of pseudo science fiction. I will set up a “Schrödingers Cat” experiment taking place both within SL and FL (First Life).
Schrödinger’s Cat was a seemingly paradoxical thought experiment devised by Erwin Schrödinger published in the magazine “Naturwissenschaften” in 1935.
The original experiment attempts to illustrate the incompleteness of the Copenhagen [...]

Editor for writing LSL – scripting code

Technical Hint: You can get a free “offline” editor for writing LSL – scripting code. This makes it a lot easier to try different ideas without having to be logged into SL. The application (Windows only – a.f.a.i.k.) can be downloaded from http://www.lsleditor.org/