CARP CREATORS MillaMilla Noel by laszlo diabolus

CARP ctreators MillaMilla Noel

a special edition of the

virtual art space

diabolus

cybernetic art research project:

the CARP creators

MillaMilla

Noel

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The word: „Cyberspace“ is known now as an artword, its born from the word „Cyber“ (a shortform from the english word „Cybernetic“ that again comes from the greek word „Kybernetike“; „The art of navigate“ and the word „Space“. On the worldfamous Macy-Conferences in the years 1946 till 1953 Cybernetik was something of high interest. Wellknown and famous scientists as Alan Turing, John von Neumann and Heinz von Foerster started here from scratch the mo dern computertechnics and the programm-architecture, today the basics for the Cyberspace. The real Cyberspace was opened by Secondlife. So you speak of web 3-D or so called Metaverses. The Metaverses are Internet-based virtual timespace-infrastructures. The miracle that we are experiencing today: the Cyberspace, the dematerialized virtual time-space, the worldwide webbed society. where we „surf around„ with lightspeed. An artist that is NOT using this virtual universe as a challenge and a goal doesnt deserve the name „Avantgarde“ This e-book dedicated to the pioneer of the Cybernetic Art Nicolas Schöffer. He was one of the most important artists of the second half of twentieth century. Father of Cybernetic Art, thus of socalled „interactivity“, he wanted to bring a prospective and non-backward-looking vision of Art, which could help mankind to develop itself with a good hold on true creative and liberating possibilities of our times.

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works; my pictures often portray other artwork, because Second Life is an artificial world completely built by its own residents. Out of my hobby I made an instrument through which I can relate and express myself inside a very special dimension. Here I’ve refined my technique in using technical tools and I’ve worked on my conceptual objective. Often it feels like I’m using a scalpel able to dissect, remove or re-compose. A picture has often the ability to manifest something that otherwise will not exist, a hybrid between digital, conceptual and emotional realities that wouldn’t be otherwise formalized.

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The Metaverse is a place where I can experiment with my own creativity without any barrier and at a relatively low cost. Moreover it’s a place that allows meeting people from all over the world, from different age groups and socio-cultural backgrounds: this gives the chance to broaden one own’s cultural and artistic horizons. It’s definitely an instrument to search and discover my abilities. Themes, avatars makeovers, new identities - chromatic effects and brand new aesthetic references. To take photographs in Second Life to me means not only expressing what I see, but also communicating my viewpoint, born from the type of mixing and interacting that typically happen in social net-

I like to work on photography and art in general and on new ways of producing and exhibiting it not only inside the Metaverse. The picture “Alien Glow” that partially represents the people of the Metaverse: an avatar staring into the future. This picture is the winner of the Avatar Pics Competition. (that is the 1st crossworld avatar art contest, open to all virtual worlds and avatars, artworks created in Second Life, IMVU, World of Warcraft, Frenzoo) it has been displayed at the Koinup Art Gallery built for the Second Life 6th Birthday) and in RL into the Festival Art in Villa Fogliano – Latina. I’m a photographer, hence I let my images, colours, contrasts, and lights speak for me. My images represent an instant, a portrait of an individual or the expression of a collective feeling. But in each one I tell a short story. My work is mostly colours, emotions; sometimes it happens on the spur of the moment, like a snapshot, sometimes it is the execution of a carefully planned concept: the post-production of an idea.

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Art is created in SL because it’s a ductile and immediate medium to use in order to give substance to one’s imagination. I try to solicit an emotion in the viewer. It’s very important. Art for me is a way of uniting people in a shared dimension. It’s interesting to discover that beside the emotion I express in my artwork, the public can see other images, other shades that often are new stimuli for me. Let’s say that a positive response from the public feeds my desire to create, experiment with new artworks. Feedback is always constructive and receiving a tip or a critique from a colleague is a stimulus to become better and improve oneself. Moreover the creative act can be a work of multiple hands, meaning that could be inspired by feedback from other artists. I mostly just use the SL client to take pictures (windlight settings, camera control, etc.) and I postproduce in RL with Photoshop or other graphic editing software to crop or other minor retouching. Photography is a passion of mine in RL also. Personally it has helped my interest for the art world in all its manifestations. It also helped develop my big passion for photography. This translated into producing artworks exhibited also in RL (- “Rinascimento Virtuale” presso il Museo di Storia Naturale e Antropoligia di Firenze dal 21/10/08 al 7/01/09 - Futuroma Roma - Serata Futurista presso il Tempio di Adriano a Roma 27/01/09

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxk5lcoJpNE &feature=channel - “Open Garden interAction” durante il Festival delle Arti presso Villa Fogliano Latina 26/07/09 al 2/08/09). In SL everything is possible, thus themes can be whatever our imagination can come up with. Obviously the strength of SL compared to other metaverses if the ability to build your own world around yourself. Both. As a photographer usually I work alone, but I have a strong connection to my group, “Carp Creator”, which I find very stimulating and full of energy. Together with its members we developed various artistic projects (see diabolus ning). I feel, more generally speaking, a connection also with the artistic community of SL at large. My habitat is the Metaverse: here I’ve developed as an artist. My aspiration is to be able to exhibit again my photography in RL.

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Picture 5: Cetus Gallery District architecture by DB Baley

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Picture 10: Cetus Gallery District architecture by DB Baley

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