Doppelgänger - The Exhibition
OOM Creative is excited to be working with the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, on a forthcoming exhibition Doppelgänger. Curated by Gillian Raymond the exhibition will feature international and national artists working in Second Life who have been commissioned to address the themes of identity, self, and new interpretations of portraiture in a virtual environment.
OOM Creative is designing the overall exhibition environment including landscaping and architecture and are looking forward to working with the artists while they are residents in the months leading to the exhibition opening in October 2009. The project will develop in three design phases allowing the nature of the exhibition and its context to develop organically over time. More to come as this project develops. The imagery above shows the design at the end of phase one, and below, the artists on the island. More details and imagery to come as the project develops.
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Looks good, Greg. Congratulations to all of you. Nice to see this new arena of art and culture emerging and gaining roots. Also happy you guys are going to do work inside VastPark as well as Second Life. Cool!
Thanks Bruce. I think the arts and culture arena is leading the way - in this area - in the meaningful adoption of virtual world platforms. The Doppelganger exhibition is using Second Life as its platform, with artists who have established profiles in this medium, and will allow a national and international audience to have a unique NPG exhibition experience as part of an online strategy and extension of its physical gallery space in Canberra. In the ACVA LAB project we are engaging a range of platforms (Vastpark, Unity, Second Life … etc) as innovative contexts for virtual arts over the coming year and beyond.