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November 23, 2005

The Port

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Arena for Experiments

The Port is a place, a community and an arena for experiments. It is a 16-acre virtual island located inside the online world Second Life. The island is a 3d-model, collaboratively shaped by its users. The Port is open and accessible to all Second Life inhabitants and potentially to all internet users. Regarding The Port as a piece of land renews questions of spatiality in an online context.

Members of The Port Community belong to an international network of artists, architects, thinkers, researchers and programmers collaboratively exploring (1) the notion of value-creation in an online environment, (2) the nature of immaterial production and ownership, (3) the interlacing of an online and off-line reality, (4) possibilities for virtual worlds to function as public space and (5) the concept of communality in a trans-local sphere.

Projects already initiated include developing new musical instruments, an expanded white board for discussions, architectural structures and a garden, an alternative currency with backing in virtual land as well as continually producing in-world TV reports and staging live music and dance performances.

Posted by jo at November 23, 2005 01:25 PM

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