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| Sadly Solo does not allow links to his photo. This one is taken from SaveMe Oh's blog. |
Today
I was made aware of a discussion on Flickr, started by Solo Mornington , which
should find more attention and participation. It is about the protest of some
artists, caused by the banishment of SaveMe Oh on almost all LEA sims but in my opinion mixed with other approaches. We all know
that there are 3 times more artists who are keen on a LEA sim as places are to
give. So whatever will be decided, some will be jealous and feel treated
wrongly. The next step is only natural. These persons assume nepotism.
But we should not forget that LEA was meant as a good thing for the art world
and the committee members are working as volunteers and nobody is as far as I know part of LL. It helps nobody when the whole project will be skipped. Protest
is a good thing to make people aware but only if something productive follows. That
means also not to mix the themes, which happens at the moment. An escalation
does not help anyone. I think the large majority will agree on that.
So
the covered topics seem to be (and nothing is meant personal, just to clear
the dust):
1.
The generally more than undemocratic structure of Second Life
2.
The question how the committee members has been appointed and what qualifies
them.
3.
The question if their function allows committee members to judge who is artist
and who not.
4.
The question how artists are chosen
4.
The question if a general ban in precaution of an artist should be tolerated
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| "Who is...Art?" Taken by WuWai Chun |
I would like to add some thoughts (provoking as usual):
- The committee members are not responsible for the structure of SL, they cannot be blamed for that and we have to assume that they have good intentions regarding the art community
- The public wishes more transparency in the work and decision process of the committee. It should not do the same mistakes as Linden Lab.
- Everyone who thinks attacks against an avatar are not personal has no clue about latest behavioral research. Our brain is not able to distinguish between real and virtual worlds. That means an avatar is as well us as we are in the “real world”. Actually the real world we are seeing is a just virtual picture created by our brain. Read my blog post on that here.
- Everyone who has an official function should learn to distinguish between critics against function and person and to try not to take it personal.
- Every artist who is thinking that he is worth more than others to own a LEA sim overestimates his own importance.
- Everyone who denies others to be an artist, no matter if he thinks the other person is just a bored housewife, an idiot, a griefer or a troll thinks fascistic. Let’s discuss art, not the fact IF someone is artist.
I skip my opinion on a general banishment here
because everyone who has read my blog post about the incident on the Pirats opening at LEA should already know.
Here is my compromise proposal: The
protest builders remove their stuff and form themed groups with others who are interestd in this topic. It would be great if
these groups could create works or themed events. The LEA committee lifts the
general ban and replaces by caused bans on events which will be most likely be provoked.
It is time to turn all the energy into
something productive.
Link to Solo Mornington's Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/solomornington/6983741306/in/pool-1778232@N24
Taxi to LEA sandbox: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA5/70/145/23
7 comments:
Quan for president...ah, no, she is German!
But she dresses well.
Quan.... I was away for a few days, but finding your lines just as I fall of the train makes me shout : this is simply BRILLIANT (again)! Bravo!
Ms Shilova
You put things in perspective Quan, great post!
The minion
Quan: "6) Everyone who denies others to be an artist, no matter if he thinks the other person is just a bored housewife, an idiot, a griefer or a troll thinks fascistic. Let’s discuss art, not the fact IF someone is artist."
Some people *are* trolls and griefers. That doesn't mean they aren't artists. There's nothing fascist about calling a troll a troll. Trolling is abusive behavior. I'm not the only victim of trolling by SaveMe; browse through her 'blog to see the names.
LEA Art Sandbox has rules for a reason. They're reasonable rules. When people break the rules, there are escalating levels of dealing with those people. Since SaveMe's schtick is to be a troll, she trolls people like me who end up banning her. Then she complains loudly that she's being censored, when in fact, in the case of LEA Art Sandbox, she's banned purely on behavior, not content.
So she trolls me with the behavior that I have to deal with, which gives her material with which to troll YOU with her trumped-up shrieks of censorship. If you're willing to characterize me as a fascist because there are rules at LEA Art Sandbox which we enforce, then you're her chew-toy as well. You might enjoy saying I'm a fascist as a joke, a gag, a laugh at the expense of the out-of-control administrator. But in fact, SaveMe had a place to rez stuff at LEA for a year, until she broke the rules.
So please kindly rethink your characterization, and imagine that SaveMe's cries of censorship are really there to manipulate *you* just as her abusive behavior is there to manipulate people like *me.*
Solo: Although English is a foreign language to me and I might make mistakes; I place my words always very thoughtful. I was not talking about the ban at the LEA sandbox. No, I expressed that you have been personally attacked which you must not have to tolerate. I was talking about a general ban which I still find not ok.
Same with the facism. I just said, people who are denying others to be an artist.... Plus I said to you when me met last time at the LEA sandbox that one can be asshole AND artist!
And please do not present yourself as victim. You handled the situation so far very cool. Come back to that and let's talk about facts.
Read this blogpost too: http://dividni.blogspot.de/2012/05/to-lea-or-not-to-lea.html
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