Immersive art, exhibitions, builds, and creative culture in Second Life. Curated by the SLRandom ArtCrew.
The original Hotel Chelsea in New York City has long been woven into the mythology of modern art, music, literature, and counterculture. Built between 1883 and 1885, the red-brick building became home to generations of writers, musicians, performers, and visual artists. Its rooms carried the echoes of names such as Mark Twain, Tennessee Williams, Bob … Read more
Scheduled for: 23 May 2026, 10:00 AM GMTCategory: Second Life, Virtual Events, Digital Arts Key points The Grid Gets Its Close-Up Second Life is getting ready for its 23rd birthday, and this year the grid is rolling out the red carpet. SL23B will run from 18 June to 19 July 2026, with Second Life’s official … Read more
Second Life’s Destination Guide quietly functions as one of the platform’s most important cultural tools. For a community of 30,000 concurrent users, understanding how it works helps artists, curators, and builders use it better.
Second Life art deserves to be written about as contemporary art. Not as a cute digital footnote. Not as nostalgia. With Raglan Shire’s 21st Artwalk opening across five regions, it is doing what art is supposed to do: gathering people around images, spaces, and shared attention.
Glinka Gallery in Second Life shows how digital galleries can support disabled artists through visibility, access, community, and ongoing in-world exhibitions.
Studying art as someone who creates in Second Life has changed how I understand space, material, and presence. My practice doesn’t sit neatly inside the traditional idea of the studio. It moves between screens, avatars, regions, textures, objects, scripts, photographs, video, and lived digital experience. Second Life isn’t just a tool I use to display … 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.
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
A showcase of the NYE 2024 Wonderland build in Second Life, created by SLRandom ArtCrew for the Everdream region.
How the SLRandom ArtCrew works with performers, DJs, dancers, and visual artists in Second Life to create collaborative virtual events and immersive creative experiences.