“Full Immersion Hyperformalism†by DC Spensley who is DanCoyote in SL
Graciously hosted by NMC Arts and Letters Sim.
The organizing principle behind this exhibition is to encourage guests to take advantage of Second Life’s ability to “cut the tethers” that hold us in the gravity based world and gently release real life concepts like “Ground” and “Water” in favor of another, less encumbered experiential space.
Hyperformalism is formalist abstraction in hyper medium. By disabling rendering of facsimiles of real life, a surreal space for viewing art is created. Things no longer conform to the field of view of your avatar and scale and context are no longer measured against the arbitrary figurative standard.
View the show as intended, please take a few moments to optimize your Second Life viewer for the exhibition by using these keyboard shortcuts for PC or Mac:
• Turn on Client/Server controls: [PC = ctrl - alt - shift - D] [Mac = cmd - option - shift - D]
• Disable Camera Constraints: [PC = ctrl - alt - C] [Mac = cmd - option - C]
• Turn off clouds: [PC = ctrl - alt - shift - minus] [Mac = cmd - option - shift - minus]
• Turn off SurfacePatch: [PC = ctrl - alt - shift - 5] [Mac = cmd - option - shift - 5]
• Turn off Water: [PC = ctrl - alt - shift - 7] [Mac = cmd - option - shift - 7]
• Turn off Ground: [PC = ctrl - alt - shift - 8] [Mac = cmd - option - shift - 8]
• Set Draw Distance to 512 [Preferences/Graphics/Draw Distance = 512]