RMB City is an online art community in the virtual world of Second Life. This project is an experiment exploring the creative relationship between real and virtual space, and is a reflection of China's urban and cultural explosion. In Second Life it consists of 4 sims - RMB City 1 to 4 - at time of writing. Cao Fei and her avatar China Tracy explain it to us:

"A city dubbed RMB City is being built in Second Life by China Tracy. It's a city that is a condensed incarnation of contemporary Chinese cities with most of their characteristics; a series of new Chinese fantasy realms that are highly self-contradictory, inter-permeative, pan-political, extremely entertaining, and laden with irony and suspicion."

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Put your Flickr photos of this object into the Virtual World Directory group, and tag them with vwlocation-1261, to see them here!

Yeeey! Cao Fei, a Chinese artist famous for her RMB City design in Second Life, is displaying her work in the Serpentine Gallery in London. So, we (some Rezzable folks) definitely need to go see! ;) We'll be at the opening at 6PM UK time tonight. If you happen to be there too, don't hesitate to come and say 'Hi!'.

Cao Fei, through the avatar she created called China Tracy, spent a year exploring the possibilities of Second Life and produced the i.Mirror trilogy, 2007, a series of films that document her adventures, which were presented in the Chinese Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale, 2007.