Monday, May 14, 2007

YOU ARE NOW ENTERING THE VIRTUAL SECTOR

Maybe the title of this event is choosen as allusion of the splitting of Berlin after the second worldwar. Berlin is getting now its fifth sector. The Mediaartist Aram Bartholl is visualizing the virtual doubleexistenc of the german capital Berlin as newBERLIN in Second Life with an event 15. Mai at 13.h PDT in Berlin Alexanderplace. Around the virtual existing place of Berlin will be drawn a line, which will significate the possibility of traspassing frontiers beetween virtual and real worlds.

The not completed newBerlin in SL is situated on a SIM, with the televisiontower in its center. SIMs are the virtual units in SL for measuring territoriums. Passers-by can visit the virtual part of newBerlin at a PC-Screen during the event.