Today I showed to the my ARTS 450 class the area I explained all about in my previous posting here. Everyone seemed to get a kick out of it. They were finding things that I just hadn't got to exploring yet. Maybe that is a good thing that there was so much content? I believe so. We were playing for a little bit but then we ran out of time because we had to start our tour with an artist we planned with.
As a class we went over to Lennox Hill to visit an artist who goes by the name of Scottius Polke. He was dressed up as a cute otter for an avatar. He was a real shy person with his speech, but what he wanted was for us to go around and play with all the interactive objects he has provided. He created a house that was something out of a cartoon. Unfortunately I don't have any snapshots since Scottius disabled people from taking pictures. We were saying as a class that the visuals kind of look like the show, South Park. There was a lot to do, such as bouncing on a bed, moving trash around in the room, to getting electrocuted by an outlet. There were also giant socks laying on the ground that once given a sniff, my avatar feel to the ground, paralyzed! Scottius toke us to another area that replicated a 2D drawing he made. He created a 3D environment that almost perfectly modeled his painting, and avatars could go around looking for clues to what the story was about. I looked around for a while but I couldn't really find anything pertaining to the story. Maybe it was just me.
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