eTeam is a creative duo from Easton, PA and Ilmenau, Germany, but they live and work in Queens, New York and Mannheim.
I don’t particularly find this type of installation art that interesting, but the theories behind some of their work is, they focus their attentions onto land use issues and “socio-spatial interventions.”
They buy plots of land and then compose structures made out of useable things people throw out, old televisions, tennis rackets, chairs etc. These structures although visually interesting are not my cup of tea, but after reading more about them I found out that 2 years ago they decided to expand this idea; by buying a 4096sqm plot of land on SecondLife: a 3D visual world. They then created code that would be used to add “trash” to their site. When the avatars on SecondLife delete rubbish it all is dumped into a folder and like most computer applications if this trash is not deleted the avatars performance could be compromised, so eTeam developed a public dumpster for the duration of one year using a decay script.
Looking at space restrictions and the record of activities has been logged at: www.meineigenheim.org/dumpster_log/doku.php
The most interesting aspect to this part of their work is that from time to time random trash heaps appear from the Second Life into the First life, reminding us that “objects and lives in worlds that copy each other are often just searching for lost originals.”
I don’t particularly find this type of installation art that interesting, but the theories behind some of their work is, they focus their attentions onto land use issues and “socio-spatial interventions.”
They buy plots of land and then compose structures made out of useable things people throw out, old televisions, tennis rackets, chairs etc. These structures although visually interesting are not my cup of tea, but after reading more about them I found out that 2 years ago they decided to expand this idea; by buying a 4096sqm plot of land on SecondLife: a 3D visual world. They then created code that would be used to add “trash” to their site. When the avatars on SecondLife delete rubbish it all is dumped into a folder and like most computer applications if this trash is not deleted the avatars performance could be compromised, so eTeam developed a public dumpster for the duration of one year using a decay script.
Looking at space restrictions and the record of activities has been logged at: www.meineigenheim.org/dumpster_log/doku.php
The most interesting aspect to this part of their work is that from time to time random trash heaps appear from the Second Life into the First life, reminding us that “objects and lives in worlds that copy each other are often just searching for lost originals.”
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