The Paradise of CyberPolis ...

...diary of an art-installation in progress
by Asmita and Sable (LEA AiR program 2015):
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA12/146/18/94

World Culture Hub and Turing Project by maikelkay

The whole evening (according to MET) has been filled with a considerable event in the German writer community at Kreativdorf: SL resident maikelkay aka Michael K. Iwoleit in RL has presented his recently built "World Culture Hub" and the sky building "The Turing Galaxy" to the public. The World Culture Hub is a project in progress and will present changing and permanent exhibitions and live events from different cultures all over the world. Even the architecture is related to specific cultural parts of the world and in the future there will be readings, music performances, art exhibitions related to these areas:

The entrance of the World Culture Hub has some introductive information and clearly arranged tp-pads.

The building representing African cultures looks like made from adobe and has already a corner with some musical instruments and information on African drums provided by an ethnomusicologist (Asmita Duranjaya).

A so called long-house represents Native American cultures.

A tiki-bamboo-house stands for the Pacific region.

Middle and South-American cultures can be explored here in the future.

The opposite part of the massive building shows Asian sections, starting with Near-East and India, presented by an Indian dancer and the musical instruments sitar and tabla.

The playable musical instrument guzhen and video-information can be found in the Chinese room.

Passing a zen-garden the visitors reach the last room in a typical Japanese style with a Geisha playing a koto and additional remarks about the koto and the shamisen. The sound can be switched on and off by clicking.
Between the two wings of the WCH is a club area with a small stage, a dance floor and comfortable chairs. It was opened by an ambient-concert of maikelkay himself, who is an active musician too. The room was also a suitable frame for the after-show party with DJane Miriam and her variety of attractive world culture tunes.

WCH-Club and DJane Miriam
The second huge event has been the presentation of the Turing-Galaxy-Project.

This sky building will become a center for research on cyber culture. 

Three exhibitions and two readings introduced this part of the program. The first exhibition showed pictures by SF-illustrator Christian Günther.

Well known SL artist Harter Fall presented some cyber-objects.

Marcus Hammerschmitt is not only a great SF-author but also a talented photographer.
The readings have been in German language, so I could not join them unfortunately, but I am sure, the quality was excellent like all what I have found. Yes, there were guests, but when I see sims with dubiously purposes crowded to overflowing, then I am asking why not more people could also find an attraction in visiting cultural events like this one, that maikelkay has accurately prepared with hours and hours of work.
At last: One building seems mysterious for me:

What could be the purpose of that? Maybe maikelkay will solve this puzzle soon.

Finally: Recent Space 4 Art SimBasis-Installations

The landlord-artists and the artists in residence at Space 4 Art are busy. They got a new neighbour-sim and until all is settled and set up, a lot of excitement and trouble had to be faced, starting from personal dramas to conceptual differences. Nevertheless is the new crew finally willing to work under the special concept and to try to reach a status of artistic synergy, helpful for recent and future projects. The finished art installations on the sim basis will be presented here:

Let's start with the traditional Space 4 Art sim. kjs has created a maze in his special style, dominated by color and light combined with flexible prims. The area looks like an exotic temple-complex and has the title "maybe a maze (i)ng":

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Space%204%20Art/127/127/28 .

Louly Loon is a master of floating sculptures light as a feather. Her environment with the title "Interlude", has a surreal atmosphere with overdimensional lotos-flowers, maybe an inspiration of her last trip to Sri Lanka.

ChapTer Kronfeld shows once more a provocating political statement concerning the treatment of the refugees coming from Africa and trying to enter Europe. The title of the expressive and accusing installation is "Empathy".

Asmita's installation LESBOS mitght be provocating for some too, because it shows overdimensional female bodies and hills consisting of huge boobs. It is a kind of ironical statement with regard to the Lola/Tango breasts sold in Second Life, depersonalising females according to male fantasies. Asmita's women have bodies and breasts but no head. 

Last not least Sisi Bidermann has doen the first final installation on the new sim basis with an impressive and atmospheric art-garden:

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Port%20Lydius/35/166/27 .
Much more to come in the near future!

NIGHTMARES by Asmita Duranjaya

A nightmarish blue is surrounding a terrain with 3 brains on a pile.

The brains are hurted by a knife and fluid is dropping out into a puddle.

The fluid can be drunk by the visitor, sitting on a pose-ball.

Nightmare enough, but there is more provocation to discover, when walking through Asmita Duranjaya's art-installation:

Knifes fall suddenly down and the visitor has to care, that his own brain is not concerned.

Nightmarish words show suddenly up and mysterious voices seem to have a fight.

Spider-like animals fall from the sky, horrifying the guest.

At last the visitor can be buried under over-dimensional breasts ...

swallowed by a monster ...

suffer from tiny spirits ...

attacked by a poisenous green snake ...

and at last sitting between 2 chairs (sitting at the fence) will not protect him

from nightmares attacking him.

All this has been shown in the wonderful Aakriti art center, created and hosted by Ranadeep

with the support of his beautiful friend Catt Gable

and is shown now at Space 4 Art (click the rezzer-pads).

ALWAYS by La Performance ...

... is a virtual dance show, presenting 10 music titles concerning the topic "ALWAYS". The dancers use an animation hud to perform live and synchronously with the music they hear. Fabulous costumes, colours and a technique as perfect as possible in virtual worlds mae this show a remarcable event in Second Life, that is mostly booked out. Here are some impressions: