Blackthorn Hare receives Masters for Second Life sculpture
It's hard enough to create art in the world of Second Life, but what if your degree depended upon it? Doug "Blackthorn Hare" Anderson undertook exactly that challenge, and received the first-ever Master of Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design for sculpture done in Second Life.
His work, "Yes", shows an aircraft about to plunge to the ground in the middle of the main street of an anonymous small town. Below it, two avatars may stand, embracing, not knowing the doom about to come crashing down upon them. It's a scene the artist hopes will show how love defies some uncomfortable truths about the world. Though constructed in Second Life, Anderson devised a method using 3D glasses to bring the installation into the real world, where he exhibited it at the college's Arnheim Gallery. Not Possible IRL talks to Blackthorn Hare about his work, his thesis, and his plans for the future.
