The Art Gallery Owners group founded by Sasun Steinbeck and metaLIFE, a Grid-Wide Marketplace, announced a new partnership yesterday. This partnership will be great help for gallery owners better connect with customers by helping art lovers travel to your in-world galleries and making it easy for people to shop for your art from your gallery or any other place all across Second Life.
About Sasun Steinbeck:
Sasun Steinbeck is an early pioneer of dynamic, interactive art in Second Life with the creation of Sasun's Morphing Sculpture which began in late 1995. Using complex scripting techniques Sasun's sculptures are able to change shape, sound, and texture, creating a dynamic sculpture that can change into an infinite number of shapes that owners can enjoy for a lifetime. This sculpture and the philosophy of engaging the observer more deeply in the art piece through creative involvement and interactivity has inspired a whole generation of SL artists to carry this unique style into the future.
Sasun is also the creator and long-time maintainer of the Art Galleries of Second Life list, fulfilling the need to help art lovers everywhere discover, explore, and connect with the many excellent art galleries and creative minds in Second Life. The list currently has over 675 galleries and art installations on it and is updated in real time via the Art Galleries of SL kiosks created by Sasun.
The SasTech Kiosk.Net networked kiosk system used to distribute the list information at all of the galleries was created by Sasun Steinbeck and is widely used by many residents as well as Linden Labs to distribute information, magazines, and objects across Second Life to their customers. It was recently chosen as the official information distribution system for SL's 6th birthday celebration "SL6B" in June 2009.
