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03.12.09Virtual Concert Gets a Critique of SortsAn area that still hasn't, in any serious way, grabbed the attention of the cultural critic is Second Life. Still looked down on by the critic - that is, with the occasional exception, like Sara Corbett's piece "Portrait of an Artist as an Avatar" in the New York Times that we wrote about a few days ago - the emerging Second Life arts happenings are nearly invisible to the mainstream swath of the world. John Terauds, a classical music critic at The Toronto Star, ventured into Second Life's Music Island to write up a really interesting feature article that explored ...
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07.07.08The Toronto Star Pulls Out the Flying Phalluses: Virtual Worlds and Avatar RightsJust when you thought the story of Anshe Chung being bombarded by flying phalluses had been neutered, it appears again in an article in the Toronto Star preparing the world for avatar rights. The Star used the incident to point out that avatars have rights too: "The popularity of avatars has much to do with the emergence of the online self. Avatars are the custom-designed figures created by computer users to play video games or to participate in a variety of online worlds. Recently, some nasty events have befallen these avatars, bringing moral or financial injury to their creators." The Star neglected to ...
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