Virtual art............is it real?   Many times over I have heard this question asked.  Of course it is real.   Art is Art no matter where or how it exists.  Virtual art, existing in a virtual world or virtual platform online has the ability to be viewed, touched, explored, and interacted with.   One becomes fully immersed within the environment.  Perhaps  more museums and galleries in the physical world will embrace this art of the future which is quickly becoming art of here and now, and share these immersive environments with their patrons.

Virtual art can be static 3d creations from the artists imagination; a replica of a physical real world piece; a magical morphing, musical sculpture that continually recreates itself into a new piece of art as you view it or an entire immersive environment that involves multi-dimensional builds, interaction, intrigue,  wonderment and discovery.

Intrigue-Immersion-interaction--mystery-melancholic at times.... her installations produce awe , deep thought and amazement!

Bryn Oh is a sort of second life "Ghost artist" for a Toronto Oil painter.  She is a Metaverse artist who is meant to exist only online.  She is a concept, a pixel character who inhabits the virtual world of Second Life.  To one day exhibit amongst first life artists in a formal gallery environment as a digital character is the eventual goal.

 Another beautiful sim by AM Radio

IDIA exhibtion and installation sim for artists-in-residence hosted by the Institute for DIgital Intermedia Arts at Ball State University.

IDIA welcomes inaugural artist-in-residence, AM Radio.

http://idiarts.org

Extract from " Adam Ramona (Adam Nash) - Seventeen Unsung Songs "  by Dr. Lisa Dethridge (Lisa Dapto)

Adam Nash is a 3D artist, performer, composer and programmer who uses online space (and sound) as a realtime performance medium.  

His work has been presented in galleries, festivals and online in Australia, Europe, Asia and the Americas including SIGGRAPH, ISEA and the Venice Biennale.  Nash teaches at RMIT University in Melbourne. He works as composer and sound artist with Australian group, Company In Space.  He also works with UK group Igloo, exploring the integration of motion capture into realtime 3D audiovisual spaces.  He collaborates with a number of artists on actual/virtual perfomance in online environments including Second Life, Multiverse, Quest3D, Torque3D and Pure Data.

I am not really sure how to name Four Yip's 'Lune-atic Yipsie'. Is there any word for fashion which is that well thought of and complete that it becomes art? Or does any terminology exist to describe art that becomes wearable, enjoyable for the 'average' avatar out there? Not something 'stuck up', 'lookie! I'm an artist', but something that invites you to become part of the art, experiencing it, ... . Something that encourages you to spread the art by wearing it, and that then - opposed to a Keith Harris Tshirts - costs nothing? If anybody knows of a word for this, please share.