Beneath the Tree That Died - AM Radio

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About Beneath the Tree That Died - AM Radio

A Little Further Than Before:

A snow-covered barren landscape surrounds a large frozen lake. Suspended a bit above the surface of the lake is AM's Tree That Never Died, its shadow spilling onto the ice below. This build first opened in January 2011, and closed in September 2011. This build also had been hosted by Mencius Watts, and IDIA Lab...The Institute of Digital Intermedia Design, a part of the Center for Media Design at Ball State University.

Into The Sky:

A rugged hilly, isolated landscape, stark with far reaching views. AM's, now signature, Tree That Never Died is suspended just over the surface of one of the high hills.The build was open for a couple of months in early 2010, and is now closed. It was hosted by Mencius Watts, and IDIA Lab...The Institute of Digital Intermedia Design, a part of the Center for Media Design at Ball State University.


Beneath The Tree That Died:

A landscape, almost dream-like, in its surreal aspects with a lonely highway bisecting the space...a large tree - The Tree That Never Died - suspended over it... a 1948 Plymouth sits at an angle on the road near the tree.. a partially open red door sits in the middle of the highway at the other end....umbrellas drift in the space...one of AM Radio's real life paintings sits just above the surface of the road...a telegram lies not too far away. To each side of the road lay a flat landscape. When a visitor turned their media on in their viewer, they would see a moving light pattern spread across the ground on each side. This light pattern was made by a particle generator that AM scripted to create this effect. Turning on and off media would present a different light pattern each time, and no two people would see the same light pattern.

AM Radio's build, Beneath the Tree That Died, had first appeared in SL as an art installation on the University of Kentucky sim, an art project, that was part of the University Art Gallery, which was curated by Tezcatlipoca Bisiani. The installation ran on the Kentucky sim from mid-November 2008 until January 1, 2009.

AM was later able to reopen this build in a new spot at Welsh Lakes where it was hosted by Alexandar Vargas. The build is now closed.

For those who would like to take a look at some of the pictures of this build that were taken while it was being hosted on the University of Kentucky sim, you can visit that group here:

www.flickr.com/groups/919412@N20/pool/