Open Art Museum Second Life

A new Building for the OAM

2008-03-28T09:04:00.000-07:00

Many things have changed since the opening of the OpenArtMuseum.
Firstable the Museum has got a new Slurl:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Open%20Art%20Museum%2C%20Eduate/110/231/21/

So click here and be welcome in my new rooms.
Yes the Museum has a new building, roman style with real roman mosaicfloors. We also got a shop and a Museums Coffeebar. The works in the building are still going on, but I am sure it will be a fine place to have nice stays in Second life in future. A new exhibition is planned. Be curious about the new concept and excellent design work. Below are some photos giving a first impression of the new look.
Be Welcome!

Lara Delgado

Gottfried Helnwein exposition/Interview in german

2007-06-19T03:09:00.000-07:00

Kunstmuseen in SL: Second Louvre

2007-06-19T03:05:00.000-07:00

Ein schöner Rundgang durch die Ausstellung des Second Louvre:

Gallery - Museum

2007-06-05T06:43:00.000-07:00

What is the difference?
I made the decision for "Museum", because I wanted to distinguish between shops and presentations. Second life is a very commercial world. In anyway contributing you have to pay. You have to pay for land and uploads. For example uploads of textures cost each 10 L$. That is not much money but if you are working a lot, at the end have a look at your bank/paypalaccount: it costs. To attract people to visit shops or other places it is custom to put there "freebies" or even pay money to them for coming. Every builder or shopowner ist intended to earn some lindendollars.
The world of freebies is contrarydictionary to artwork and the thought of "Originals". What are things worth multiplicated per hundred? It is a massmarket.
So I wanted to set something against. A place to repose without "freebies", without the obligation to buy. Simple enjoying.
That's why the OpenArtMuseum is a not a gallery but a museum. It is not commercial. If you are intereseted in pictures or other exhibition objects, it is possible to contact the artist directly.

Open Critics

2007-06-05T04:35:00.000-07:00

I found a very critical opinion on this german blog about my experimental Museum.
Read here: Museumsblog
What I didn't think about was, that german Museumcurators are searching the web, for existing Museums in SL. SL becomes Hype in the ArtScene so they have to know... and to write about.

The author is a professional in the scene, who doesn't know Second life except of literature. The OpenArtMuseum is mentioned together with the Gallery of Dresden, which had new opened in Second Life. I never thought to have such famous companionship.
The confounding is the word "Museum" in the name of my Project. I have a Museum in Second Life, being an artist in my first life. So it is my first experience of having a Museum of my own. I love the experimental way of working in Second Life. Everything is possible, but be aware it is never without relationship to first life.
Even when this response isn't as friendly as I hoped, I can say that the promotional concept of tthe Museum is working with success.
About the pictures in the current exhibition: they are mentioned as "remembering paintings of known artists". Be assured these paintings are digital copies of my own original paintings. As artist I work free and experimental and I am surely not a copist. But I am little bit pleased to see what impression my work makes even on screenshots.

A trip arround the Museums exhibition

2007-05-14T09:01:00.001-07:00

YOU ARE NOW ENTERING THE VIRTUAL SECTOR

2007-05-14T03:43:00.000-07:00

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.

Artists wanted

2007-05-14T02:29:00.000-07:00

The OpenArtMuseum is searching for Second Life creators, who want to exhibit their artork.
What you need to expose, is a conceptional view or idea of what art may be in SL or RL. and an experienced style.
Welcome all kind of object, painted, graphical, fashion or archtiectal arts.
Intereseted? Please IM Lara Delgado in Second Life or send an email per blog.

The first vernissage and the opening of the OAM

2007-05-13T12:55:00.000-07:00

We had had our grand opening at the opening celebration of the machmit isle in Second Life.
Before the opening there were many things to do. Terraforming of the terrain of the Museum, building, concepts, descriptions and programming oft he infopoints and teleports. Arrangement of the artworks. Its the first time I am owner of a kind of galery and I had no experience with arrangements of artworks, no guideline how to direct the visitors successfully through my exhibition.
First exhibited artist of the museum is myself, or better my Avatar Lara Delgado, it is my SL name and being designer and artist in Reallife I decided to exhibit my Reallife pictures in Second Life.
It was exciting and a little bit disappointing to upload my pictures and to see the effect they make in the virtual environment of SL.
My style of painting is a kind of expressionism. Exagerating the colours of landscapes I have in my head, these pictures have got a very emotional expression. In RL they are mostly bigger than 1 meter. In Second Life I was afraid that the effect of my big paintings from RL is not transferable in the world of 3D animations. In SL everything is made with pictures, here called textures. 8textures are used to create the surface of 3D elements, to make them looking real) So I made the experience that simply transferring pics from one world in the other may not be the last step to do for someone creative.
Now the museum is existing about 2 weeks and I am a little bit tranquilized. I even sold some pictures in SL. My first client was a RL arts collector. He was also interested in the real originals, but residing in the mexican desert (I wonder that there is DSL available), the way of getting together to have a look on the originals was too complicated.

The concept of the SL Open Art Museum

2007-05-13T11:33:00.000-07:00

Heartly welcome to the first Blog of the OpenArt Museum!

This Museum is a place in the virtual world of Second Life.

Its aim is to be open for arts development in the virtual world of this emerging new form of internetculture.
The main concept is based on the word „open“ .. open for all who are creating, open for all who are admiring the process of creation and looking for its newest results.The only condition to participate and to expose at this place is to have a creative concept and to have an idea of the possibilities 3D arts can give to us in our online world.

The Museum itself is situated in a virtual garden. Artwork is presented in a kind of surreal ambiente. A garden of art.

We plan to have changing exhibitions of different artists and art themes.

Possible art themes could be:

Objects, animated objects,

Paintings and Graphics,

Fashion, Architectur,

Multimedia Films,

We are opening each exhibition with a public vernissage, this can be accompagnied by musical events, like concerts, or readings.

The OpenArtMuseum will not be a place of trading, therefor its name Museum, it would more be a reflection of arts in the 3D world of LindenLab.

Ther will be no freebies, but naturally you can contact the artist himself to buy his artwork, in the virtual or real world.

Adresses and description you will find beside the artwork at the red information points.

The sponsoring of the OAM:

Expomaniac GmbH Germany

Concepts for Marketing, on-/offline, fairs and exhibition.