Discoveries on LEA10

The Oracle is another tale in the cycle of stories around the exo-city CyberPolis. Presented in a hud-book, it is told from the perspective of researcher Lisa Sheldrake, whose report guides the visitors of the sim LEA10 through a game. 

6 letters and 7 gifts have to be claimed inside and outside of a central maze until the solution word is found and the door to the oracle in the middle of the sim can be opened. 

The frame idea is, that the astro-anthropologist tries to find out, whether humans have visited CyberPolis in former times and what influences they left on the planetary system. The discovery of strange monitor-bots all around the maze shows her the evidence of an early contact and a probably unwanted influence of the human visitors. The alien-species in this area, called FractAliens, saw the monitor-affininty of the guests erroneously assuming that the monitors were the heads and brains of them. 

A new bot-species was born and even the one and only Oracle consists of the body of an insect and the head of a TV. The Oracle is an AI(artificial intelligence) and able to answer questions in open chat.

The full-sim-installation can also be experienced without game or story, simply as an art-park with forests of stunning 3D-fractals and the maze can be seen as a subterranean art gallery with flat fractal-pictures. The color-scheme of yellow-orange-red is predominant and the visitor can stroll around or fly in a fractal blossom, listening to ambient music.

Ambient music will also be played during the celebration party for this sim-installation on 17th of April 2016 at 1pm SLT. Michael K. Iwoleit aka maikelkay in SL will give a live-concert on his synthesizers and the artist Asmita Duranjaya will accompany his music with painting particles above the temple of the one and only Oracle.

LEA10: Another Tale of CyberPolis - The Oracle by Asmita Duranjaya

A simwide immersive and interactive art-installation based on gaming and storytelling.
It will continue the story of researcher Lisa Sheldrake to find the secrets of the urban planetary system CyberPolis. 
This time anthropologist will discover an old oracle. Her story will guide the visitors through a maze and help them to communicate with an alien species and at last with the oracle itself. The game and the story are embedded in a colorful immersive fractal landscape. 

Manipulation on the Webpage of Sasun's Art Gallery List

Yesterday the art-sim Space 4 Art has been taken from the list of Sasun Steinbeck's Gallery-webpage. The reason is, that the administrator of Space 4 Art, Asmita Duranjaya, had found out, how manipulative and arbitrary the placement of the galleries is. She informed the owner of the kiosk-system and the webpage about her findings and announced her plan to make a photo-demonstration of the facts with the result, that the kiosk for Space 4 Art was eliminated one day later. So what has Sasun Steinbeck to hide? I will try to demonstrate with the screenshots, that Asmita could take until the moment of elimination.

The photos above show the first two lines of the gallery-list and screenshots taken at intervals of one hour. Space 4 Art is in the second line with 122 votings. The Spiral Art Gallery is with 110 votings also in the second line. The Rose Gallery with impressive 418 ratings is on the first place. Nevertheless it is also here dubious, why a the number of the ratings does not play any role in the sequence. But more dubious is, what happened one hour later: The Spiral Gallery is now on the first place infront of the Rose Gallery, other galleries with much less votings than many in the list have now got frozen places on the webpage. I tried with a friend and witness to vote for those galleries, but nothing changed. It is from that point on clear, that the administrator of the webpage has manipulated the position of the galleries. The next day something similar happened:

I think, not much comment is needed. The votings are removed and frozen again at 2:30pm. As an answer to Asmita's question, where the votes have gone, she was accused to use alts for getting votes and to send naked avis to Sasun's sim. Asmita affirmed, that she does not know the sim of Sasun and did not use alts for the votes. To find out, whether alts are used, you would have to spy for the IP-addresses and that would be against the TOS of Second Life. To use alts is not against the TOS and so it is not testable, whether alts are used for voting, also not for every other gallery in the list.

I will not deny, that the list and the tour-hud have been a good idea in the beginning. But if you use the hud, then you will be definitely guided to the first galleries in the list. And if these first spots are frozen and manipulated then the other galleries below the first line in the list will have very less chances to be visited. I tried the tour and after visitng four galleries I was tired and the next day I was distracted by other things. This list is no indicator for quality and shows an awry picture of art in Second Life. I think if an artist is convinced of producing good art, he should avoid to join a useless system. 

Space 4 Art has a new voting, greeting and comment system and will give out a list with own recommendations of art galleries in Second Life worth a visit. So at last Asmita has been happy to save prims by removing the old kiosks.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Space%204%20Art/127/127/25 .