Category Archives: Virtual Reality

Rearranging my Second Life

Posted on December 6, 2010 by

To follow up on this post finally… I’ve had this home for a bit. Well, since the first moments that SecondLife began offering them to premium members. However, I never really used it. Why? There are several reasons, the primary … Continue reading →

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Turing Church Online Workshop

Posted on November 22, 2010 by

A day later than when I said I would post and succumbing to my general lack of time, I will just copy my google group post regarding the Turing Church Online Workshop: I think organization is needed because of my … Continue reading →

Posted in Aesthetics, Simulation, Singularity, Spirit Walk, transhuman, Virtual Reality, Xhyra Graf | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

Digitally Extended Memory Aids within the Visual Artist’s Creative Process

Posted on November 8, 2010 by

Fuck it.  NOT to be presented at the 3rd Global Conference on Digital Memories because I still haven’t received the money for the 2010 South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual and Media Arts Fellowship. Posted this update on 03/06/2011 because I … Continue reading →

Posted in Artefact, Autobiographical Memory, Creative Process, Expanded|Extended Cognition, External Memory Aids, External Observer, Interdisciplinary Approach, Metacognition, Phenomenological Approach, Phenomenology, Verbal Overshadowing, Virtual Reality, Xhyra Graf | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Cosmoscope II

Posted on June 11, 2010 by

From Chalmers’ Locke Lectures, Oxford 2010: Definitional Scrutability: All truths logically entailed by base truths and definitions. Analytic Scrutability: All truths analytically entailed by base truths. Primitive Scrutability: All truths a priori (analytically?) scrutable from truths involving primitive concepts. ____________________________________________________________________ … Continue reading →

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The VR Thing

Posted on May 17, 2010 by

To pick up from here:  What’s the importance of the VR, specifically Second Life? Is it just that it’s more practical than creating big ass sculpture in real life?1 There’s About the Xhyra Graf. It is what I came up … Continue reading →

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Painting fodder

Posted on February 10, 2007 by

In going through previous snapshots to see what could be used to feed the painting process, I found this photo.  It’s a night shot after relocating Quatro in the first studio space…dark and spatially ambiguous. Yeah… it is a virtual space.  However, I suppose … Continue reading →

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