 SomArts has long been a pioneering, community-based arts organization serving various underserved artists in SF and beyond. This program is a pioneering effort to train community arts leaders, curators and cooperating artists on using the virtual world platform to create, manage, sell and curate art and artists on an international scale via the web and virtual worlds. This is also an effort to help community arts leaders develop new skill sets to effectively create virtual exhibits that incorporate and affect underserved audiences. It will also help curators rethink how art is presented in the future to newer generations or artists. This program is open to artists, curators, project directors and community arts leaders in SF. Disabled persons are greatly encouraged to apply. You will participate via your own computer on your own schedule* NOW OPEN! Click to Teleport to location. Note: You MUST have an SL account to access  SYNTHETIC MASQUERADE: NOV. 6-26th, 2008 An Exhibition of Avatar Art at RL SomArts MAIN GALLERY Synthetic Masquerade An exhibition of portraits involving the computer-based avatar Click to Teleport to location. Note: You MUST have an SL account to access "The works in this exhibit all make use of an "avatar", or digital representation of a real person interacting/functioning/living in cyberspace. The avatar-portraits in this exhibit, are developed solely in a technological-digital framework and challenges our traditional notion of the portrait. In addition, these artists add a new layer of techno-symbolism to augment and supplement the internal and external realities bornfrom our rapid change from a "real" society to a computer/digitally enhanced one. The public is invited to ponder these and many other questions arising from these works created solely in the digital world using digital beings and digital art tools." - Capn Kurka, curator   
. REQUIREMENTS* You must have a computer (PC with Windows XP or higher or a fairly new Macintosh) High-speed connection-DSL amd a FREE ACCOUNT FROM SECOND LIFE. USB Headset with Microphone. A San Francisco, Oakland, Marin or San Mateo County resident. Commit to working 60 hours online over a 4 month period. commitment.CURRENT PROGRAMS :
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| SomArts in Second Life | Art in the Virtual World | |||||
| For an Introduction to Second Life & Virtual Reality.
Read What is Second
Life? and explore the links as well as Rolling Stone's "Inside Second Life: The Net's Virtual Paradise Heats Up"and
CyFishy Traveler's Absolute Newbie's Guide to Second Life. Supported by SomArts/The SF Foundation
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