UNITED ARTISTS of SECOND LIFE
EXHIBITION
Riannah Avora, the manager of UASL
explained about the group:
“UASL is a relaxed group of artists of all kinds and others who support the arts in SL.
Designed to be low pressure, easy-going and welcoming to everyone in the group.
Its purpose is specifically to be pro-artist and support the artist in any way possible.
We do have some land, not a lot, in which we build and exhibit art
upon that has been donated to the group.
UASL is for artists, by artists.
We are a very pro-artist group.”
I was lucky;
there was a slot the verysameday I rediscovered this sim.
Notecard > Riannah Avora >
confirmation response > RA manually added rezzing privileges >
I booked the slot > I uploaded some pictures
These pictures are some-not-all of a series
I made recently
which have now come into focus
as being the purpose here.
Creativity is something I am driven to do.
It is an innate need.
If I cannot or do not do something creative,
I feel like a bottle of pop which has been shaken,
too much pressure, explosive.
It is internally painful, emotional and mental.
Being like this, it means I can draw cause-and-effect
between the stuff I am compelled to make,
and the external world where it fits in.
Nature is holistic.
Working with creativity this way,
gives a sense of purpose.
Fulfilling, because it is a relief.
To finally find somewhere I am useful, where I fit in.
For every one thing I make and share with others,
there are a thousand others unseen which remain in files lost to time.
Even this space,
ability to communicate about this thing,
words coming through at this time,
is a part of that process.
It is profoundly cathartic.
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| 網絡：藝術 Cyber : Art |
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| 藝術：想像：圖像 Art : Imagine : Image |
But then this happened:
United Artists of SecondLife community boss does not like AI generated images.
Riannah Avora pulled the exhibition.
Well that cost me a day of my life.
DISCLAIMER
I should explain, again, here, for posterity;
My AI generated images
are sourced from original art which I own the copyright of.
As such the AI images are derivatives of my own legal property
and are also therefore my own legal property.
This is based on recommendations of the USA Copyright Office
issued in 2023 with regard their opinion of how AI should be copyrightable.
The AI generator is fed prompts,
which a human user decides and enters into the generator.
Prompts are a form of poem, slogan,
as such they are also copyrightable should anybody declare to do so.
That certainly would somewhat stymie the system for AI art users.
The AI generator used for this series has a clause that
'once a prompt has been published, it cannot be used again'.
There has been no theft nor moral crime committed here
by the creation of new artworks.
Despite this, the prejudice against AI-augmented art is rife
Even within the cyber-art community.
I do not believe it is so much a case that History will decide.
I believe it is a case that individuals will answer the timeless questions,
What is Art?
What is the purpose of Art?
My answer is simple:
Storytelling;
to share experiences,
for expanding collective potential.
vs
Repressionism
dedicated to restriction
for fleeting sense of individual empowerment.
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