Brian Eno's 77 Million Paintings In Second Life
Brian Eno as a musician has worked in many varied fields throughout his lengthy career, always looking to the future for inspiration. In the early seventies he was a glittered rocker in the seminal glam band Roxy Music, then moving towards tape sampling and wild experimentation with his album Here Come the Warm Jets. After a terrible accident, leaving him immobile, he began to realize that music can take on the same properties as light or color. Upon this epiphany in 1975 he created ambient music. Afterwards he worked back and forth between electro pop and ambient compositions, working with artists such as David Bowie, David Byrne, U2, and multimedia maven Laurie Anderson.
Now he is bringing his new audiovisual exhibit to Second Life with his installation piece 77 Million Paintings. The virtual exibit is to coincide with the real world installation on display at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Fransisco.
From the description on the exhibit page:
Conceived by Brian Eno as "visual music", his latest artwork, 77 Million Paintings is a constantly evolving sound and imagescape which continues his exploration into light as an artist's medium and the aesthetic possibilities of "generative software".
On the official 77 Million Paintings site, Eno explains that he wanted to preserve the physical installation with a permanent exhibit somewhere in cyberspace. Second Life seems like a natural fit, considering that his piece was created as a painting of light to be viewed on monitors during idle time. Later this month his exhibit will be on display to any Resident of Second Life.
Brian Eno’s 77 Million Paintings in Second Life [4 Color Rebellion]
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Posted to Video Games, Videos on 11 June 2007
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