Gazira Babeli

EDITOR: Domenico Quaranta
TEXTS: Mario Gerosa, Patrick Lichty, Domenico Quaranta, Alan Sondheim
LANGUAGE: english
RELEASE: March 2008

160 x 225 mm
ISBN: 978-88-903308-3-4
Euro 20,00
Gazira Babeli is an artist who lives and works in the virtual world of Second Life, a 3D online universe entirely constructed and possessed by its residents. In almost two years Gazira Babeli has created a vast body of works which address the world she lives in, and which have lent her such a solid, recognizable image that she has become a household name in Second Life. She acts like a virus, unleashing earthquakes, tornados and storms of images, deforming the bodies of other residents and constructing metaphorical machines; a capricious deity, she herself is a work of art, a "constructed identity" which ably generates its own legends. This monographic publication tells her story, and presents and analyzes the most significant areas of her work, with contributions from writers such as Mario Gerosa and Domenico Quaranta, and Americans Patrick Lichty and Alan Sondheim.
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