Abstract

My project is to further explore the space between virtual and the real. The idea is to capture moments of information as it grows and or collides through discovery and experience. My experience is just as much a part of the concept as collecting the experiences of others in attempt to identify some shared use or value of the virtual space Second Life.

This is a documentation of an attempt to demonstrate shared experiences and uses of virtual space. Be it as a social aid in identity building or a pallet for possible objects that can enter the real world.

My questions is how does the virtual inform the actual? How do we play at possibility in order to have experiences that our physical selves could not have? How does experience become information and further effect the world we live in and the way we shape it?

In the spirit of freeing information in ways that we see it happen in the virtual worlds, my presentation will attempt let information remain free using the format of autoethnography and hypertext in the form of an oral presentation. Rather than force the findings into a format, I will instead follow and document the information as it occurs so that we can see the evolution of an idea and leave the possibility of conclusions open.