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.

This article continues previous articles about the implications of OnLive for the future of Second Life.:

People are known by the communities they keep.  Note that plural.  People rarely live in just one community.  You will immediately think of work and home communities.  Or take my article last week about how video work could be moved to a private grid.  The video production could be moved to a private grid because at that point it does not need a large network like Second Life.  It does need a larger network for a casting call.

Mixagrid  A name I made up for the current state of things.   Part way to hypergrid.

 People working together to help build the kind of virtual village  we wan tto live in.

 Goal: to encourage and promote explorable art in SL.  Method:  Build and display excellent examples of explorable art in an explorable conservancy, Quests.  We will develop other methods as we get smarter.  

 Arena for art & media projects which create new links between first and second life; not merely reproducing the image of that already known. 

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A very unusual interactive sim... click the fountain upon arrival to receive the free hud, then explore the island and unravel the story of Macbeth. Easy to navigate and full of mystery and surprises- a great use of the platform to present a time-honored work in a new light.

Obviously, contains a very large Exploratorium for large events, surrounded by various art.

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A very very fun and interactive cartoony bakery with robots!

A Japanese sim with an amazing robot that may be interactive with a HUD if you can understand Japanese.