Tunisian artist uses virtual technology for her artistic creation
Tunis , June 27, 2008 (TunisiaOnline)--The web is inspiring more and more artists to conceive their artistic creations, and invent worlds that are cleansed of the ills of today's society.
“Second life “, a revolutionary 3D website offers these artists a new way of designing their artistic creations, by abolishing the frontiers of space and time, leading to some original and fruitful perspectives, where the viewer is able of travelling unhindered, allowing his imagination to soar above the contingency of the real.
Wafa Bourkhis, an artist who is currently writing a PhD dissertation jointly at the university of Artois and Tunis, focused on the creations of the French artist Fred Forest, an emblematic figure of video art (1967), and the web (1994),as well as of the ‘Collective for a sociological art' and the ‘aesthetics of communication'.
In her newly created virtual gallery dubbed “Mediterranean on Second life”, the Tunisian artist exhibits Tunisian doors through the Mediterranean blue, thus becoming the first Tunisian ‘virtual artist', to use the internet for her artistic creation.
Wafa Bourkhis is currently setting up a virtual museum of Tunisian arts that would encompass the chronology of Tunisian art history starting from the 19 th century all, on “Second life”.
If it is not obvious that the community of artists of “Second life” are likely to effectively alter the world, at least the sensitization work they are accomplishing, might trigger other artists to act on the terrain of the real, in order to restore some freshness and novelty to art creation.
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