Delete or decay

Aside from recently posting another take on the new austerity and how "create a culture of thrift" ("The dirtiest word of this year is 'junket'") , Tomorow Museum's blog also has a great piece on a virtual artwork Second Life Dumpster by eteam who are the New York-based artists Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger.

Aside from recently posting another take on the new austerity and how "create a culture of thrift" ("The dirtiest word of this year is 'junket'") , Tomorow Museum's blog also has a great piece on a virtual artwork Second Life Dumpster by eteam who are the New York-based artistsFranziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger.

Items acquired by Second Life inhabitants are, inevitably, trashed - just as in real life. In Second Life that means they're moved to a folder and deleted. eteam found this simple act of making them disappear unsatisfactory. They created a script through which anyone's unwanted virtual items could end up in their virtual dumpster, and allowing these items to "decay" there. This is a world which, say eteam, "never looks used or worn-out." Their work reflects on the limits of our ideas of perfection.

eteam describe their fascination with the virtual in an interview:

Look for RSA Arts and Ecology's own commission on Second Life - Dirk Fleischmann's residency there. As Tomorrow Museum says, "Does anyone actually use Second Life who isn’t an artist or grad student writing a thesis on it?"