Parts of the
Informatics Forum have
been modelled in Second Life... inclduing the art and exhibition space
callled "InSpace".
The current gallery there shows some Informatics members artworks
(some prize winning photography, art items, involvement in Smithsonian
collaborative art projects, etc) and also archives the original
artwork images and information from the alley that ran to the East
side of InSpace as it was being built. There are some Paolozzi items
in InSpace that were destined for the real Informatics Forum and Board
Room. A virtual worlds version of a robotic scuplture originally
designed for the Informatics Forum called "Formation" has been
recreated in Secod Life with a link from InSpace - see
Trans---~Formation.
The design allows for replicas and archived exhibit content of real
InSpace exhibitions and shows to be kept and visited in replicated
copies of the InSpace gallery as a "MoreSpace" and a way to look at
smaller artworks in the gallery and then go to a much larger virtual
world location to see the installation via an "OutSpace" and return
after the visit.
Outside InSpace is a replica of the donors board from the real Forum,
along with a video as used at the time the Forum and Second Life
virtual Forum/InSpace was opened by Scotland's First Minister Alex
Salmond on 3rd September 2008.
