
Lisa sez, "I've been working these past few weeks on this installation with Electric
Sheep artist Spot Draves. He and Second Life 3-D artist Somatika Xiao
(a.k.a. David Stumbaugh) have put together an incredible interactive art
exhibit in Second Life. We're having an opening this
Thursday night - March 13th, with Spot there live at 7pm.
I've just posted the first
part of a multi-part interview with him that explains the nuts and
bolts behind his incredible art."
Link
(Thanks, Lisa!)
See also:
Electric Sheep artificial life DVD launch March 31, San Francisco
Electric Sheep: Evolved fractals movie in NYC next Sat
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