Portrait Island Goes Live

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January 29, 2010 3

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Over 250 people came to the National Portrait Gallery for the launch party of the Doppelgänger exhibition. Portrait Island is now live! If you’ve visited Portrait Island, we’d loved hear your feedback about the project via the comments section below, or use the official ‘feedback’ survey accessible on the Island.

If you haven’t tried Second Life, it’s an easy to install and runs on most computer systems. Visit the project in Second Life, here is the SLURL, or the Doppelgänger Website

OOM Creative designed Portrait Island for the National Portrait Gallery as a virtual online exhibition space. Doppelgänger is the first exhibition to be showcased on the island, and the island is seen as a long term – virtual extension – of the Portrait Gallery’s physical spaces, for digital art works that engage issues of identity.

“Upon landing at the National Portrait Gallery’s Doppleganger Island, I was immediately struck by the design of the space – Greg More has created an environment reminiscent of London’s Tate Modern, austere but not cold, monumental but not alienating – a perfect canvas for the range of virtual portraits that the exhibition comprises.” Kate Richards, Multi-media Artist and Producer.

OOM Creative also created a series of short films to document the art works that are viewable on the National Portrait Gallery YouTube Site

Here is an in depth article article about the exhibition:
http://www.metaversejournal.com/2010/01/21/national-portrait-gallery-in-second-life/

Design Article:
Australian Design Review

IMAGES: View of Portrait Island – foreground Autoscopia by Adam Nash, Chris Dodds, Justin Clemens | Installation for Cao Fei’s iMirror films | Detail of Portrait Island forum space
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