Metaverse Creativity

Intellect is delighted to announce the publication of the groundbreaking new journal Metaverse Creativity, which is the first refereed journal focusing on the examination of creativity in user-defined online virtual worlds such as Second Life®. While such creative activity includes artistic activity, this definition should in no way be limited to artistic output alone but should encompass the output of the various disciplines of design – such as fashion and object design, landscaping and virtual architecture – that are currently all amply manifest in Second Life®.

Creativity in a metaverse manifests under unique conditions and parameters that are engendered by the virtual environment itself and it is intrinsically related to these in its very act of realization. Thus metaverse creativity cannot be separated from the underlying Metanomic system (metaverse economy), the legal issues of ownership and copyright, the very geography and related atmospheric/lighting conditions upon which the output is rendered, or the underlying computational system which generates this.

The inaugural issue includes a fascinating editorial by Elif Ayiter and Yacov Sharir in addition to such articles as ‘Cyber-archaeology and metaverse collaborative systems,’ ‘For a critical perspective of the value of web art’ and a breathtaking photo essay: ‘LPDT2’ (originally exhibited in Seoul during the INDAF new media art festival 2010). For a complete list of articles with accompanying abstracts visit: http://www.atypon-link.com/INT/toc/mecr/1/1.

Issue 1 is FREE to view online: http://www.atypon-link.com/INT/toc/mecr/1/1

To subscribe please visit the journal’s page for details: http://bit.ly/epvHg3

A Call for Papers is available at: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=179/view,page=2/ 

Title information
ISSN: 20403550 | Online ISSN: 20403569
First published in December 2010 | 2 issues per volume

Editors
Elif Ayiter: [email protected]
Sabanci University

Yacov Sharir: [email protected]
University of Texas at Austin

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