Virtual worlds have a cultural life that rarely gets documented properly, and most of it goes unrecorded. The posts in this section cover what is actually happening inside Second Life: exhibitions, community art walks, fundraisers, gallery openings, and the people and spaces making it all possible. It is not a highlights reel. It is an ongoing record of a scene that deserves to be taken seriously. The two most recent are directly below.
The Blog is where the wider thinking happens: art news, reflections on creative practice, writing on disability, access, queer history, and the politics of who gets to make culture and on what terms. It is not a content feed. It is a record of what the crew is reading, watching, arguing with, and paying attention to. The two most recent posts are directly below.
Second Life Art Culture
YavaScript Pods: The Quiet Transport Network That Keeps Second Life’s Mainland Moving
Second Life’s mainland has always been a bit of a mess. Not in a bad way. In the way that things are when they have actually been lived in. It sprawls across continents that were never designed to be coherent. Roads go places without obvious reason. Waterways appear between regions like they were planned by…
Glinka Gallery and the Quiet Power of Disabled Artists in Second Life
Glinka Gallery in Second Life shows how digital galleries can support disabled artists through visibility, access, community, and ongoing in-world exhibitions.
The Blog
What I’ve Been Sharing Lately: Digital Worlds, Living Archives, and the Refusal to Disappear
Over the last couple of weeks, the posts on this site have been doing something I did not entirely plan in advance. They have been forming a shape. At first glance the range looks scattered: Second Life exhibitions, art news from the physical world, queer history, museum politics, disability, AI anxieties, virtual charity events, Substack…
Tiny Humans With Cameras, Printmakers in Disguise, and a Baroque Row in Rome: Art News This Week
This week’s art news brought a surprisingly human set of stories: children being trusted in gallery spaces, famous painters revealed as serious printmakers, a heritage battle in Rome, and a quiet argument that arts funding needs to grow up.