NMC Campus Observer

Filthy Fluno Shares Art Process

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : May 12, 2007 08:48pm

Last Thursday, we were fortunate to have Second Life artist Filthy Fluno visit NMC Campus, where he spoke to 20+ audience via live audio. The purpose of this event was to share the process by which he created a RL painting commissioned by NMC, called “Search For Excellence.”

What was special in this session was that Filthy played for the audience a video he shot which captured the development of this piece of art, and was the video played, he described the symbolism, techniques, and what he was thinking at different stages.

You can see it yourself in the video where we took the audio from his discussion and placed it into the video that he showed for the audience last week
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Filthy also took questions from the chat area of the audience- listen to the full audio recording below to hear his responses to questions such as:

I was wondering, do you feel, or have you felt.. that your pieces lack something when you bring them into Second Life? Do you think they take on a different presence or feel here, than they do in the physical world?

How long does it take you, on average, to do a Drawing?

Did you have a vision for this work when you started, or did it evolve? Did it go in any different directions?

Kurt Andersen just said on the radio (Studio360) that your work is like Kandinsky meets Chagall. Would you have any comment on the influences in your work?

Do you prefer to have the piece just stand in its own without explanation from you, or did you enjoy the video process and the way it allowed you to document and explain your thinking in the creation of the piece?

We were able to record Filthy’s description, and add this to his video, so you too can hear him describe his work.

Filthy Fluno on Making Art

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