The Second Life Random Art Crew (SL Random Art Crew or SLRAC) is a community of artists and creators within the virtual world of Second Life. Their platform invites visitors to connect with other creative minds, explore a variety of artworks, and find inspiration. The group’s goal is to foster a collaborative space where individuals can share ideas, showcase their work, and engage in the creative potential of virtual artistry. They warmly welcome anyone interested in artistic expression within the virtual landscape.
Collaborating on various art projects for large and small events in Second Life, providing an inclusive and welcoming space for artists of all levels. Organizing creative projects and interactive art displays fosters a vibrant, supportive community where everyone can express themselves artistically. The group values inclusivity and collaboration, working to ensure that all participants feel encouraged to explore their creativity and contribute to a diverse array of artistic experiences in the virtual world.
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, public health expert, legal authority, or qualified to tell you what to do about anything. These are personal reflections on a strange week of headlines, not instructions. There are some weeks when the internet feels less like a source of information and more like a badly supervised laboratory. You … Read more
The 21st Raglan Shire ArtWalk runs across five Second Life regions from 17 May to 14 June 2026. Over 100 artists, hedgerow galleries, sculpture parks, poetry slams, and a kite parade. Virtual worlds are not dead. They are just quietly building culture.
16 May is National Honour Our LGBT+ Elders Day. A day for the people who survived criminalisation, Section 28, the AIDS crisis, and decades of erasure. Their history is not decorative. It is evidence.
This last year has been one of the most intense and formative periods of my art life. Not just because of what I made, but because of what the practice became. It stopped being a collection of pieces and started being an ecosystem: physical, digital, written, performed, archived, and very much alive.
Fiction, essays, and reflections on art, digital culture, memory, and speculative worldbuilding. Original short fiction including cli-fi, dark literary fiction, and collaborative work. The written arm of the SL Random Art Crew practice.
The Met and the Neue Galerie have announced a landmark merger for 2028, bringing Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I and over $1.5 billion in Austrian and German modernist art under one roof. Commentary on custody, restitution, legacy, and what happens when a jewel-box museum joins a giant.
Second Life art sits in a direct line from pixel art, through 3D digital environments, to VR and immersive contemporary media. It matters because SL is not just a place to hang flat pictures on virtual walls. It is a living art medium where avatar, space, sound, performance, architecture, social presence, and audience interaction all … Read more
This past year has been about selfhood under pressure: the strange labour of staying human while surrounded by noise, screens, memory, illness, grief, digital intimacy, and the constant demand to perform a version of yourself. My work has circled presence, attention, and survival. I have been exploring how identity forms in fragments: through virtual worlds, … Read more
A showcase of the NYE 2024 Wonderland build in Second Life, created by SLRandom ArtCrew for the Everdream region.
Exploring Pop Art: Art for the Masses, Inspired by Popular Culture Pop Art is one of the most recognizable and influential art movements of the 20th century. It is known for its bold colors, playful imagery, and incorporation of everyday objects and popular media. Emerging in the 1950s and reaching its peak in the 1960s, … Read more