Outsider Art Comes Inworld

The University of Delaware is inviting Second Life artists to submit works for a show and talk on Outsider Art to be held October 23, 2009 11:30 am SLT (2:30 pm ET)

Outsider Art: a term coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for art brut, a label created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the boundaries of official culture  ... Outsider art has emerged as a successful art marketing category (an annual Outsider Art Fair has taken place in New York since 1992).

"Outside the boundaries of official culture."  That surely applies to artists in Second Life.  So I like that phrase.  Also the phrase, "successful art marketing category."

Some excerpts from the show announcement:

The Illusion of the Art 1, Gleman Jun

the Collectors' Gallery at Black Swan

The Mixagrid will Mix Communities

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.

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