The technical issues concerning the experience of art in Second Life
Sofie Marie Høegh Nielsen is a danish art historian and SL user. She will talk about the experiences of art in a virtual world. She will disucuss the connection between the user and the art work as related to the users experiences with the media. The experience of an art work in a virtual world depends very much on use of the technology and how users manoeuvre in the world. As an inhabitant of SL you develop your skills to move around in world and thereby your exploration skills. Høegh Nielsen will talk about different skill-levels and user-abilities from a philosophical point of view. Literature: Merleaut-Ponty: Phénoménologie de la perception, 1945.
Høegh Nielsen will also comment on the work of Antonia Low, which is presented by the artist in the same event. With the work being a scaffold, she would like to shortly present Martin Heideggers Theory of the Ge-stell (german for scaffold). Literature: Martin Heidegger: Die Frage nach der Technik, 1954.