"The Final Five: Brooklyn Is Watching, Best of Year 1" Exhibition
Jack the Pelican Presents
This event has ended.
This is an "official" show of virtual art. So much is at stake, it has already spawned a Salon de Refusés of over thirty virtual artists who didn't make the final cut. Inside the gallery are five monitors, each featuring a virtual copy of the real space occupied by a different virtual artwork. These are "THe Final Five," created for this context by the nominated and elected best from hundreds of virtual artists who have exhibited in year 1 of Brooklyn is Watching. It is a diverse bunch, representing very different points of view of what it means to make virtual art. Visitors to this exhibition will have a chance to interact with the works and to vote for the best of the best.
"Brooklyn Is Watching" is a mixed-reality project by artist Jay van Buren. The stage is based in Second Life. For nearly a year and a half, artists have placed artworks there to be seen by visitors to the Real Life venue Jack the Pelican gallery--and to have their works discussed by international critics, curators and artists (including Tyler Coburn of Rhizome , and Barbara London of MoMA) in a weekly podcast and blog at BrooklynIsWatching.com. The project has been widely discussed and written up in such publications as the New York Times Magazine and the Brooklyn Rail.
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Schedule
from August 07, 2009 to August 23, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-08-07 from 19:00 to 21:00
Artist(s)
Dancoyote Antonelli, Bryn Oh, Nebulosis Severine, Selavy Oh, Glyph Graves