This machinima, shot in Second Life, documents L1Aura Loire’s SL6B virtual art installation. The first part is the narrative of the installation; it is the year 2499 on the gloomy meteor. The second part of the machinima draws on the artist statement for the installation.

The installation was originally for the sixth birthday celebration of Second Life, which took place on a “meteor” that was far from the sun. In making my piece, I imagined what role virtual worlds would have for the poor, stuck meteor people, and that is what is documented in this video. My own vision of the future is much more optimistic, and although I see the compensatory function of virtual worlds (and popular culture in general) as an important one, I have also come to see the act of toggling, or switching, between different modes of subjectivity that will become more prevalent as augmented reality forms proliferate to be just as interesting.

Presentation at Fiteiro Cultural in Second Life, shown live at Mercosul Biennial of Porto Alegre, Brazil, November 2009, and shown live at Utopics Swiss Sculpture Exhibition, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, August 2009.

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