| Marco
Manray, artist and photographer in virtual worlds,
documents the developments of Second Life since the beginning
of 2005. He realizes wide reportage about the main events,
people, arts, and everyday life in Second Life, witness of
the birth of the metaverse.
Author of the book "IO, REPORTER IN SECOND LIFE"
Shake Edizioni, Milano 2007.
exibits
- "Shooting Pixels" @ Galleria Overfoto, Napoli,
dec 2007 - feb 2008
- “NetSpace: viaggio nell’arte della Rete”
@ MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo Roma,
from 17 oct to 18 nov
- “Second Lifers”, on line - Carte Blanche,
the artists space of ecrans.fr
Before
becoming Marco Manray, he yet was a net reporter since 2003,
travelling in the web for the project Internet
Landscape and in war games with
the artwork ARENAE,
a b/w photoreportage from the wars on line, entering in the
multiuser war game as an "embedded" photographer.
As a free lance he published his photographs on international
magazine and newspaper such as Liberation
("Marco est notre envoyé spécial sur
Second Life"), The Avastar (SL news magazine), El Pais,
il Sole 24 ore, Elle, Numéro beauté (italy),
Casamica Corriere della Sera, Repubblica (italy). His artwork,
the series of portraits
Complete bio and news
Second
Life is a 3D world completly constructed by his residents.
We are constructing a new world, we know every thing about
how it works bud we don't know what the result will be. That's
the reason why I take photographs in the Metaverse, to undestand
how this all started.
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