The opposite of the grungy cyberpunk neko dystopia is a sterile, 2001-style future, clean-lined and vaguely modernist, as if it were forever in a 1960s flick. This kind of future is mirrored in the beautifully made skybox from C&D Designs, the Sky Bar. The couches were a cheeky take on Scan Design or Aems, and the small sections of vegetation definitely rang of contact with alien lifeforms. I walked into this skybox expecting company… Then I realized that they were still on Martian time! Not even the drink-serving droid was there to knock me out a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster.

I'm not sure what "the future is now" means. Interrogating the phrase, it breaks apart a few words, Future and Now. When my daughter asks when a certain event will be held, she doesn't yet comprehend the order of days; Friday might as well be a strange indefinable forever away for her. That's always how I've thought of the word Future too, something that couldn't be pinned down, always receeding, never Now. Now, on the other hand, is far easier to comprehend. We wallow in it, it washes over us…

Bryn Oh's Vision is coming alive on the Rezable grid!  With 45,000 prim space available at her disposal, her imagination is oozing creativity, as she is creating another one of her amaizng immersive environments.  A work of art you can walk through, immerse yourself in, experience in a way you cannot normally experience art.

When asked to describe her newest installation Bryn had this to say....

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.

The new Greenie landed and dusted himself off. He looked around with a frown. "This is a really fun looking sim" he thought. "But it's not very stylish, is it? I mean... look at these guys. No dress sense at all." The light gleamed off his fangs as he tapped them in thought - or tried to through the helmet. All of a sudden he grinned.  "I think I'm the only one that can fix this. With some of the best designers in SL, of course."

                                  Are you ready for the future? Stay tuned...

                                                January 2010

                                         The Future Is Arriving

Both photos taken by Prad Prathivi at Heritage Key King Tut Virtual