Lena Kiopak: Mindfulness

Lena Kiopak says about herself: "SecondLife is a beautiful, virtual world, but it is always fleeting. Places come and go...sometimes within the blink of an eye. I love to explore and discover new, exciting sims, and try to capture special moments before they eventually disappear. Some of these special moments are the perfect feeling for the MindScape project, such as Mindfulness. I have been enjoying SL for more than 8 years, but only recently started sharing my photographs. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do."
And her statement concerning her contribution for MindScape is: "Mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment, through a gentle, nurturing lens.
Mindfulness also involves acceptance, meaning that we pay attention to our thoughts and feelings without judging them—without believing, for instance, that there’s a “right” or “wrong” way to think or feel in a given moment. When we practice mindfulness, our thoughts tune into what we’re sensing in the present moment rather than rehashing the past or imagining the future.
SL is an amazing platform for mindfulness. Because there are no physical barriers to how we feel, behave, or act, we can be our true selves in SL and explore new feelings and emotions. My SL photographs are such examples, since they portray specific events and how I was interpreting my feelings at the time.
I hope you enjoy, and embrace your own mindfulness in your SL adventures."
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nice%20Atoll/85/186/1003 .

MindScapes by Xirana Oximoxi

Xirana Oximoxi / Nuria Vives is our first artist in the 2D-area; she says:
"I’m a Catalan artist. My works reflect my concerns and my different moods. They are based on my experiences and express a personal sensitivity nourished by impressions from the external world and my internal world. In this latter sense, I like to call them abstractions or  'mental landscapes'. The works reflect the influences of impressionism, expressionism, abstract expressionism, etc."
Mindscapes by Xirana: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nice%20Atoll/78/150/1003 .
"Can we see the landscape hidden behind the eyes of a lost child surrounded by destruction? Through our eyes we fuse and dissolve gradually with the world around us, losing our distinctive outline. These works show some human faces that become 'transparent' to let us have a glimpse to our inner landscapes, to how our experiences and environments come into us to shape our thoughts, our feelings and emotions.
I usually work with different mediums, oil, watercolor, acrylic, ink, charcoal and pastel.
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You can purchase original Art works, small format, at my Etsy shop:
https://www.etsy.com/es/shop/NuriaVivesArt ".

State Of Mind by June Clavenham

June Clavenham was born and lives in Montevideo, Uruguay. studied art with Alamón, Montani, Aroztegui, and Taller Subte. She studied photography at Taller Aquelarre and had exhibitions at both private and goverment facilities. She says about her work in Second Life:
"Many years ago digital art grew on me as a new and innovative way of expressing, as it is created in a non traditional way and seen in a different media.  Initially based on fractals, and using different software to bring shapes and colors to a new dimension, I am interested in exploring the options brought to us by the development of technology.
I had exhibitions in many places dedicated to art in SL, including UWA and LEA".
Her contribution for MindScape is a sculpture called "State Of Mind" and her comment says:
""State of Mind” intends to be a visual representation of how the thoughts we choose to entertain in our minds affect our emotions, the way we perceive our realitiy, the way we interact with others, and in general, all of our being and our lives":

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nice%20Atoll/114/80/3686 .

Betty Tureaud - Artificial Intelligence

The next artist in the MindScape exhibition of interstellART is Danish artist Betty Tureaud. Her focus is on Artificial Intelligence. She says:

"In computer science, artificial intelligence (AI),
sometimes called machine intelligence,
is intelligence demonstrated by machines,
in contrast to the natural intelligence
displayed by humans. 
In my art installation I combine AI whith Neuralink,
a cable direct into the brain to make a superhuman,
a cyborg, where artificial intelligence AI
is combined with human intelligence."

This is an interactive sculpture with a dance-animation, if you sit on it.

 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nice%20Atoll/143/130/3686

 

MindScape

Yesterday the art-project MindScape has been opened officially on the sim interstellART / Nice Atoll in Second Life. Thanks to the integration in the VWBPE-conference the interest was huge and 40 guests could see the 3D- and 2D-art of 19 artists.
I am going to feature here in this blog one artist every week with five photos of his/her work and links to the virtual world and the social media.

The event has been started with a Fracticularium, a special particle-show, which has a topic, but has because of the ever changing textures and fractal particles an experimental flux-character. The movie of this particle-performance can be seen here:
https://www.ethnomusicscape.de/second_life/MindActivity.mp4 .

The first artist to present is Shenn Coleman. He has shaped the animated brain-dome, in which the 3D-artwork is presented. He says:

"Sharing to reach beyond the boundaries

of our imagination is always a fantastic adventure.

I like to create to learn and to share,

and SL is a wonderful way to do that

and i like to explore imaginative ways.

This dome was an attempt to visually represent

the function and the genesis of the thoughts in our brain

and maybe also to invite other forms of intelligence

to come into contact with our human neurons".

More about Shenn and his work you will find inworld:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nice%20Atoll/151/121/3686 .

Fracticularium "Invaders" by Asmita Duranjaya with ambient music by Hayden

http://www.ethnomusicscape.de/second_life/invaders08122019.mp4

https://giridevi.blogspot.com/

EcoScape on interstellART