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The
SIMGallery Project brings an urban art museum (the Yerba Buena Center
for the Arts ) and the online game-world of the Sims together to
create a collision between high art and gaming culture. Rainey and
Katherine have built a virtual version of Yerba Buena Center in
the Sims Online where they have curated a show and performance series
within the virtual environment. In addition to the in-game show,
the project maps the Sims aesthetics and game play back into the
galleries at the Yerba Buena Center through a series of real life
sculptural interventions. This real world installation further conflates
the game dynamic and the embodied experience of the viewer visiting
the real life galleries. Visitors can enter the online gallery in
borrowed avatars at stations in the real life museum. The piece
explores the fertile ground between art and gaming culture while
thinking about the digital medium and investigating what art can
be in an online communal space.
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