About/Participate
About
Open Art Critique or OAC started as a social group of artists that used to gather in the virtual world of Second Life every Sunday at 4 PM Pacific Time to discuss their work and share ideas. The group started sometime in February 2007 and has been visited by many artists from all over the world. Artists used to put up one original piece each, to an assigned theme. The group critiqued each piece for a time period of 10 minutes. The works were critiqued on style, rendering, choice of media, concept etc. It was Hosted by Eshi Otawara, and moderated by Kelseigh Miranda, both residents of Second Life. This blog is what remains of Open Art Critique which ceased operating in Second Life in the format it used to operate in before.
OPEN ART CRITIQUE is NOT limited to Second Life players/residents. We want to see beyond the metaverse, and anyone is welcome to request a review. Please follow the guidelines below.
What’s the point?
Discovering exciting artwork. Educating and exposing stuff we find exciting. Making people less terrified of being constructively critiqued. Teaching art criticism. Learning art criticism. Fun.
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PORTFOLIO REVIEW GUIDELINE
If you are not familiar with Second Life or SL- ONLY RED applies to you. SL residents, all applies.
If you want to have your portfolio reviewed, whether you are an artist displaying their work on the regular Web or in the realm of Second Life- send email titled “PORTFOLIO REVIEW + your NAME” to openartcritique(at)gmail(dot)com
The email should contain:
- YOUR FULL SECOND LIFE NAME
- SLURL or URL TO YOUR WORK DISPLAY
- BEST TIME TO REACH YOU IN-WORLD
If your work and you are of interest to us, we will request an interview with you- most likely chat via Skype or Gmail chat. If you are in SL, it will be in SL IM.
Open Art Critique will publish transcripts of extraordinary reviews on this blog including snapshots of your work. If we like your work on the regular web, we will request photos from you for this blog. If we are reviewing a Second Life artist- we will take our own photos or request them from you. In any case- the photos of your work will be used only for non-commercial purposes, i.e. to accompany the article about your work on this blog. By requesting a review – you agree to these terms.
If you have any suggestions and/or would like to participate or have an artist you’d like to nominate for review, send email titled ’suggestion’ or ‘participation’ or ‘nomination’ to openartcritique(at)gmail(dot)com.
If you wish to have your own critique of an artist’s work published- send it to us!
