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Full Immersion Hyperformalism by DC Spensley 8/07 to 4/08

“Full Immersion Hyperformalism” by DC Spensley who is DanCoyote in SL

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Graciously hosted by NMC Arts and Letters Sim.

The organizing principle behind this exhibition is to encourage guests to take advantage of Second Life’s ability to “cut the tethers” that hold us in the gravity based world and gently release real life concepts like “Ground” and “Water” in favor of another, less encumbered experiential space.

Hyperformalism is formalist abstraction in hyper medium. By disabling rendering of facsimiles of real life, a surreal space for viewing art is created. Things no longer conform to the field of view of your avatar and scale and context are no longer measured against the arbitrary figurative standard.

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View the show as intended, please take a few moments to optimize your Second Life viewer for the exhibition by using these keyboard shortcuts for PC or Mac:

• Turn on Client/Server controls: [PC = ctrl - alt - shift - D] [Mac = cmd - option - shift - D]
• Disable Camera Constraints: [PC = ctrl - alt - C] [Mac = cmd - option - C]
• Turn off clouds: [PC = ctrl - alt - shift - minus] [Mac = cmd - option - shift - minus]
• Turn off SurfacePatch: [PC = ctrl - alt - shift - 5] [Mac = cmd - option - shift - 5]
• Turn off Water: [PC = ctrl - alt - shift - 7] [Mac = cmd - option - shift - 7]
• Turn off Ground: [PC = ctrl - alt - shift - 8] [Mac = cmd - option - shift - 8]
• Set Draw Distance to 512 [Preferences/Graphics/Draw Distance = 512]

This was written by DC. Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2007, at 10:32 pm. Filed under New Work. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

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  1. NMC Campus Observer » Next Teachers Buzz: DanCoyote & Full Immersion Hyperformalism on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 at 4:22 pm

    [...] all arranged as he is coming to our next meeting to help us understand “Full Immersion Hyperformalism”. The organizing principle behind this exhibition is to encourage guests to take advantage of Second [...]

  2. Peregrinations » Blog Archive » DanCoyote's “Full Immersion Hyperformalism” on Monday, October 1, 2007 at 4:27 am

    [...] I could probably spend days just exploring their first choice, a quite spectacular exhibit called “Full Immersion Hyperformalism” by DanCoyote Antonelli (in RL, DC Spensley), which is hosted on the New Media Consortium’s [...]

  3. NMC Campus Observer » Hyperformalism Teachers Buzz Tour on Monday, October 1, 2007 at 7:44 pm

    [...] so much appreciate today that DonCoyote took the time to give a tour of his Full Immersion Hyperformalism exhibit on Arts and Letters, one of the NMC Campus sims. Our apologies for a few folks who we may [...]