LiteralKid

These are the things of days that are passed

April 27th 2010
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Remember Secondlife? Yeah, you remember Secondlife. Massively overhyped, always nearly empty, lots of people dressed as bumblebees with inexplicably large penises. It was wild.

Anyway, a couple of years ago there was an exhibition that examined the role of commerce in art (or was it the other way round?) called Far West at the Arnolfini in Bristol. At the time we were regarded as the best Secondlife builders in the South West, so we were commissioned to make a virtual installation. In it, you could use a dystopian Secondlife factory to build giant featureless Secondlife men that were replicas of real ones you could buy. You could watch a video about the exhibition on a Secondlife TV in the Secondlife staff room as well. It never got used though cos their funding was pulled. Those were the days.