"Ars Virtua is a virtual gallery and new media center founded by James Morgan in 2006. Thomas Asmuth's (US) work centers around the culture and aesthetics of science and technology, social practices, and performance. Alejandro Duque is a dual Columbian-Swiss citizen and graduate from Medellin School of Fine Arts, Colombia. Christopher Poff is a digital artist who specializes in reality / simulation interfaces.
Built on MUSH (Multi-User Shared Hallucination) code, look art is a contemporary consideration of the Multi-User Dungeon (MUD), a pervasive late-twentieth century, text-based, online environment that was a precursor to today's Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (such as World of Warcraft and Second Life). MUDs were influenced by early role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons, relying on the user's ability to conjure images through text – unlike today's dependence on high-resolution graphics (which were not possible then). Because the connection protocols are simple, the text-only space is accessible via many clients, including mobile phones. (MUSH is a pun on MUD -- most often expanded as Multi-User Shared Hallucination, though Multi-User Shared Hack, Habitat, and Holodeck are also observed -- a text-based online social medium to which multiple users are connected simultaneously.)" -- From Turbulence
C3 - Web PY - 2011 LA - English M3 - ASCII, Web, Collection, Environment, Text UR - https://the-next.eliterature.org/works/1444/0/0/ DB - The NEXT Y2 - 2025-06-06 ER -