The article addresses how artists capture the character of physical place, whether consciously or subconsciously, when producing creative work in a virtual environment and how recent artists are exploring their desire to produce tangible objects from their virtual creations.

Join us in costume for our Halloween party TODAY October 28, beginning with a new avatar orientation at 6 p.m. Hawai’i time.

Free costumes! Costume contest! Dancing!

Full event listing
http://www.hawaii.edu/calendar/uh/2009/10/28/10924.html

UH in Second Life
http://hawaii.edu/secondlife

Hope to e-see you there!

I remember introducing evangelist Sam Joseph to the technology in the Fall of 2006. It was amazing how no one was interested but now they have hopped on the bandwagon, well after the pioneering research has been done. The same courses in the School of Communication have introduced students to Twitter years before it became a phenomenon. Look to graduate students and the classes they teach for innovation in the curriculum. Funny how they are forgotten when the chronicling begins.

Jeff McNeill,
Former GA and instructor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2001-2009.