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No Matter is an installation of imaginary objects made both in Second Life and in physical space. 

No Matter reflects the tension between the SL virtual economy and real economics by:
(1) commissioning 25 builders and artists to produce 40 imaginary objects in Second Life space;
(2)
paying them in Linden dollars at an equivalent scale of $1.50 to $12.00 per object;
(3) extracting the objects from Second Life — a closed system where 3D models cannot be exported;
(4) reconstructing these objects as 3D paper replicas in physical space.

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Credits & Many, Many Thanks!

No Matter is a spring 2007 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.,
(aka Ether-Ore) for its Mixed Realities exhibition. It was made possible with funding from the
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Produced by Scott Kildall & Victoria Scott (2007-2008) in San Francisco, CA.

Scott Kildall
is cross-disciplinary artist working with video, installation, prints, sculpture and
performance. He also works with Second Front — the first performance art group in
Second Life.

Victoria Scott is a visual artist who works with electronic media, sculpture and social relations, both materially and as conceptual metaphor.

Printing at Electric Works
Electric Works serves artists and collectors with a digital printmaking studio in San Francisco's SOMA district.

3D remodeling by Daisuke Imai.
Dai is a CG artist living and working in San Francisco.

Cutting assistance:
Camille Utterback, Brett Bowman, Genevieve Hoffman.

Photographic documentation of the installation at the Huret & Spector Gallery (Emerson College, Boston) and stills of the imaginary objects by Peter Harris.

Special Thanks to Turbulence.org co-founders Jo-Anne Green & Helen Thorington and the 25 Second Life builders and artists who participated in this project.

 

A project by Scott Kildall & Victoria Scott
Big Dumb Object
Book of Love
Brain in a Vat
Can of Worms
Cone of Obliscence
Dilithium Crystal
Excalibur
Flying Carpet
Flying Saucer
Holy Grail
Hypercube
Icarus's Wings
Infinite Improbability Drive
Kryptonite
Magic Potion
Maltese Falcon
Missing Link
Monolith
Pandora's Jar/Box
Paper Tiger
Perpetual Motion Machine
Philosopher's Stone
Portable Hole
Picture of Dorian Gray
Pot of Gold
Raygun
Red Herring
Rosebud
Sampo
Schrödinger's Cat
Seven-League Boots
Tell-Tale Heart
Ten Commandments
Time Machine
Tree that Fell in the Forest
Trojan Horse
Turing Machine
Wheel of Fate
Widget/Thingamajigs
Yellow Submarine
Commissioned by Turbulence.org for the exhibition Mixed Realities